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Re: Google One

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Post by PurpleRamen »

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…

I wish for once they would really offer a unified storage-solution. But Yet it's all just a colelction of different storages with different interfaces, rules and so on. Google Drive has integrateion into all their services somehow, and Google Photos has some bad integration into Google Drive. But what about Google Books? Google Music? Google Mail? Youtube and all the other stuff they have? At best they have some import/export-functionalitity, not a real "One-for-all" type of filemanaging-solution.

I haven't tested Google One yet, but it doesn;t seem to change anything there, just offering more space for them all.

Re: Google One

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Post by r3bl »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #129
agildehaus wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/ )

Also known as "pure Android" for the curious ones.

Re: Google One

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Post by tinus_hn »

pjc50 wrote: post #120
kmlx wrote: post #114

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I wouldn't dismiss Google. I personally use both Google Drive and GSuite. The ability to search inside the files of your whole library (documents/pdfs/videos) is very useful, while the integration of gmail + Drive + Docs bumps your productivity.

How does it achieve searching inside photos and videos? Have they been fed to the machine classifier so that if I enter "Poland" it will try to show me my holiday photos from there?

That’s easy, photos have location metadata already. But does it also support searching for people and objects?

Re: Google One

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Post by remus »

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?

The pricing is interesting when you compare it to G Suite pricing. For $10/user/month (with a minimum of 5 users) you get unlimited storage space. a pretty roundabout way of getting unlimited storage, but then you'd also save yourself $150/month or $1.8k/year

Re: Google One

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Post by jstanley »

piyush_soni wrote: post #104
jstanley wrote: post #80

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Yes, you can buy your own hard disks and not use Google.

This is actually a valid use case and some of my friends desire exactly that from them - i.e., all Google's smarts, without the tracking part (for individuals). I think they'll find a lot of customers willing to pay a good amount for that.

That's basically what nextcloud is trying to be, although I don't think it's there yet.

Re: Google One

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Post by bad_user »

nolok wrote: post #110
comboy wrote: post #92

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Services usually offer convenience. If you don't care about it then you can already register on tons of sites with multiple accounts and get vast amounts of free storage. This and they have been working on making many accounts hard for some time now.

> This and they have been working on making many accounts hard for some time now I disagree with that. The only "hard" part is stuff that absolutely makes sense during the creation part if you're making several: captcha, not allowing the same phone number to be the recovery for more than ~10 accounts, etc ... It's all very obvious protection against spam/mass registration, and if you are an actual person it takes onl…

You can just register a GSuite Business account, with unlimited storage.

They have a fine print that says you need at least 5 users in your account or something, otherwise they limit you to 1 TB.

However they are not enforcing that limit and on /r/DataHoarder/ you can see people with dozens of TB stored without issues. And even if they start enforcing it, if you pay for multiple accounts it would still be pretty cheap and you don't get this multi-account management overhead.

Re: Google One

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Post by trhway »

iliketosleep wrote: post #136
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…

I think you're right on there. When I saw the title, my initial thought was that Google had developed some kind of rocket! In other words, the name gives so little information about what the product actually is that it could be literally anything.

i thought it is something to replace Google Plus :)

Speaking about bad namings - reminds me how back at Sun at one moment everything became "Java" (even stock ticker, no kidding). "We've got just 5 product boxes (Java this and Java that), just 5 boxes, that's all! Simplify things for the customer!" Lets just say that naming as Java various non-Java things simplified nothing for nobody.

Re: Google One

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Post by r3bl »

nolok wrote: post #116
sigi45 wrote: post #71

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alone the 2tb at $10/mo is what me annoys way more. I need 1tb of space for my images but having to pay $10 makes me feel strange (yes it is relativly cheap and i can afford it) but this non linearity is probably here because of some mix calculation they are doing.

They're not doing mix calculation they're aligning themselves to the market, aka Dropbox, while doubling the space offered.

It's way more than doubling.

Dropbox offers 1TB for $10 and 2TB for $20. Google added another zero (10x as much for the same price).

Dropbox was definitely the first to offer a viable cloud storage, but they've always offered laughable storage plans (compared to their competition).

Re: Google One

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Post by PurpleRamen »

tmoravec wrote: post #77
floatingatoll wrote: post #3

Their support site is far more valuable than the landing page. From the main support index at https://support.google.com/googleone/ here are various tidbits of useful content that the surrounding HN comments wished for (sorry, none describe the "expert help" available): "Get Google One": https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9004013 > With Google One, you get more storage, help from experts, and extra member be…

How on Earth are hotel discounts related to cloud storage?

Maybe they try to move toward aAmazon Prime-Style "one subsription to feed all your live-areas"-Service. Next time they might add pLay store-flatrates for books, video, music, apps and then combine it with youtube premium.
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