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Re: Google One

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Post by agildehaus »

spyckie2 wrote: post #78

"Google One" suffers from designer in a box syndrome. It's probably a great internal name - hey, we've been providing storage for photos, email, docs, drive, and more, for over a decade, and we've finally integrated that storage into one space, so let's call it Google one! It's a great name - simple and powerful, symbolizes the effort and direction we've taken in the past 5-10 years of integrating our consumer, day t…

Waymo named their self-driving service "Waymo One", so it seems there's some force within Alphabet pushing for that name to be used everywhere?

Besides it being a service you pay for, there aren't many similarities between Google One and Waymo One and I think it'll just be confusing.

Re: Google One

#122

Post by lmedinas »

For that price i would not mind to get a subscription if it would be fully encrypted and a good messaging app unlike the hangouts and allo trash.

Re: Google One

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Post by malux85 »

Consolidation of the services is nice, but I feel like this is just getting creepier and creepier.

It’s like “put your entire digital existence onto our platform” Oh and by the way took “don’t be evil” out. Now give us all of your data, look at this beautiful UI!

Sorry Google, I don’t trust you anymore, I used to love you, it used to be about the ideals and ideas, but now avarice has possessed and consumed you.

No thanks.

Re: Google One

#124

Post by [deleted] »

gamegoblin wrote: post #32

Does the pricing make sense to anyone? 2TB is is $10/mo but 20TB is $200/mo. That means on a per-TB basis, the bigger plan is 2x as expensive. And then the 30TB is 2x as expensive as 20TB. Aren't things usually cheaper when you buy bulk?

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Re: Google One

#125

Post by monochromatic »

Insanity wrote: post #88

Kind of related, I was recentl thinking about making some backups of valuable (emotionally speaking) things like wedding pictures. Currently they are backed up on my local machine and my server, but was considering cloud options. My wife does use Google Drive (paid account w/ Chromebook) but I don't feel that comfortable with Google things. Does anyone have good alternatives that perhaps respect privacy? :)

Tarsnap.

Re: Google One

#126

Post by powercf »

iKevinShah wrote: post #83
spyckie2 wrote: post #78

"Google One" suffers from designer in a box syndrome. It's probably a great internal name - hey, we've been providing storage for photos, email, docs, drive, and more, for over a decade, and we've finally integrated that storage into one space, so let's call it Google one! It's a great name - simple and powerful, symbolizes the effort and direction we've taken in the past 5-10 years of integrating our consumer, day t…

Most probably they'll follow the path like other products have followed: Google Keep -> Keep -> Keep Notes -> Notes (In near future)

Google One ⇒ One ⇒ One Two ⇒ Two?

Re: Google One

#127

Post by buriedMEnus »

spyckie2 wrote: post #78

"Google One" suffers from designer in a box syndrome. It's probably a great internal name - hey, we've been providing storage for photos, email, docs, drive, and more, for over a decade, and we've finally integrated that storage into one space, so let's call it Google one! It's a great name - simple and powerful, symbolizes the effort and direction we've taken in the past 5-10 years of integrating our consumer, day t…

Just like Google Plus.

“Plus.”

Ugh.

It’s a huckster hook word, engorged with talking points so that PowerPoint decks can prompt for easy segues during sales pitches.

Re: Google One

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Post by kowdermeister »

spyckie2 wrote: post #78

"Google One" suffers from designer in a box syndrome. It's probably a great internal name - hey, we've been providing storage for photos, email, docs, drive, and more, for over a decade, and we've finally integrated that storage into one space, so let's call it Google one! It's a great name - simple and powerful, symbolizes the effort and direction we've taken in the past 5-10 years of integrating our consumer, day t…

A lot of Windows users probably know about OneDrive (https://onedrive.live.com/) since this is a similar service, I totally understand the naming choice here.

Re: Google One

#129

Post by Rebelgecko »

agildehaus wrote: post #121
spyckie2 wrote: post #78

"Google One" suffers from designer in a box syndrome. It's probably a great internal name - hey, we've been providing storage for photos, email, docs, drive, and more, for over a decade, and we've finally integrated that storage into one space, so let's call it Google one! It's a great name - simple and powerful, symbolizes the effort and direction we've taken in the past 5-10 years of integrating our consumer, day t…

Waymo named their self-driving service "Waymo One", so it seems there's some force within Alphabet pushing for that name to be used everywhere? Besides it being a service you pay for, there aren't many similarities between Google One and Waymo One and I think it'll just be confusing.

There's also Android One (https://www.android.com/one/)

Re: Google One

#130

Post by rrdharan »

callalex wrote: post #111
bad_user wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Dropbox supposed to be a better example? I find their homepage horrible. " Dropbox is a modern workspace " " Keep everything organized without breaking your flow " I don't understand why these companies feel the need to describe their services in this way.

Because valuation of a software company doesn't come from the products they offer, nor the current user base with credit cards on file. It comes from a perceived potential growth/platform/network effect so all of these companies have to pretend that they will someday be a panopticon that commands your entire life in order to keep that sweet VC money flowing in even if they just repackage s3 with a nice client.

Neither Dropbox nor Google is particularly concerned with courting VC money.
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