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Re: Google One

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Post by jm547ster »

will_brown wrote: post #177
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…

It’s also a straight rip off of a name from Microsoft...who produces the product Xbox One Not unlike how Google became alphabet which seems influenced by *Amazon A to Z

Strange analogy, surely it would have to be ripping off a product called ‘Microsoft One’

Re: Google One

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Post by xiphias2 »

nwellnhof wrote: post #170
malux85 wrote: post #123

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 th…

They could win privacy-conscious users back by offering an ad and tracking free Google experience with the paid plans.

They tried to do e2e encryption with Allo, then they integrated all the crappy smileys from it to their other messagong products, and got rid of Allo. The scary thing is that in theory they don't have ads on messaging, but if it would be true, they would have gone farther with e2e

Re: Google One

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Post by johnsea »

nwellnhof wrote: post #170
malux85 wrote: post #123

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 th…

They could win privacy-conscious users back by offering an ad and tracking free Google experience with the paid plans.

They would need to compartmentalize their services to win me back. Some tracking I'd accept but I don't want them to aggregate my 'whole life'.

Re: Google One

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Post by lugg »

trhway wrote: post #148
iliketosleep wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I thought it was a new phone.

After reading the top comment I realised it was a new version of drive and apps.

After reading the link I now realise it's not even anything.

It's just plain old Google with a new landing page at one.google.com.

Re: Google One

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Post by mark_l_watson »

malux85 wrote: post #123

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 th…

I basically agree with you, but my behavior is not consistent in regards to Google and privacy: I use Fastmail, DuckDuckGo, use Firefox containers for Google (and FB and Twitter), use Siri, etc. But, I have put all my pictures on Google Photos (used to be Picasa) since they rolled out the service and I buy a bulk of entertainment from Google Play movies/books and use GCP. So I do let them track me in some ways.

Re: Google One

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Post by lugg »

aaaaaaaaaab wrote: post #86
bad_user wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not necessarily. Many people pay for 2 TB without actually needing 2 TB. I currently pay for Dropbox Pro, which has 2 TB of space available, but I'm only using 300 GB. I'm pretty sure that at this point people going over 500 GB are a tiny minority. When you pay for 30 TB on the other hand, you probably need it, so their actual cost might be reflected well in that price. This is basically the long tail effect, so when…

Lol, I would just buy multiple 2 TB subscriptions from different accounts.

Probably easier to exploit the biz plan thing Linus Tech tips did.

https://youtu.be/y2F0wjoKEhg

Re: Google One

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Post by abalos »

My only guess is that large companies suffer from too much bureaucracy when it comes to naming. As a result, you'll never get a phenomenal name, but you also won't get a really bad name either. Odds are you'll get something within a couple standard deviations of "normal" and end up with a name that's just kind of... boring.

Re: Google One

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Post by lugg »

Zelmor wrote: post #91
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?

They put expensive pricing out so that the items covering 90% of their userbase look more appealing. Pricing 101. Look at any free to play game where you can buy in-game currency. [poor man's offer] [crap offer] [real offer] [expensive crap offer]

I've started to notice this sometimes. I kinda laugh it off but am actually terrified about how much thought I give to figuring out the optimal bargain offer for something I had zero need for.

Re: Google One

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Post by laputan_machine »

abalos wrote: post #187

My only guess is that large companies suffer from too much bureaucracy when it comes to naming. As a result, you'll never get a phenomenal name, but you also won't get a really bad name either. Odds are you'll get something within a couple standard deviations of "normal" and end up with a name that's just kind of... boring.

Less bureaucracy, more bike-shedding, but yes, I agree (from experience!).

Re: Google One

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Post by mark_l_watson »

pqs wrote: post #82
neverminder wrote: post #59

So looking from a single private user's perspective: Google One has best pricing, but no Linux native client and Dropbox has Linux native client and no flexible pricing.

I don't understand why they won't develop a client for Linux. Is it that difficult? Maybe the code could be also useful for Chrome OS and I guess many Googlers use Linux, so it would be useful for them too. I stick with Dropbox for the Linux support. It is fantastic. It works on servers, with no GUI, so I can easily sync stuff from my Windows Laptop and my Linux server, where I perform scientific stuff.

This! Killer feature of Dropbox, being able to partially sync just the things you want on a Linux server and your laptop.

I also pay for SpiderOak cloud storage but they don’t allow selective sync - you get everything mirrored on your laptop.

That said, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are still useful on Linux laptops through the web app.

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