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Re: Google One

#191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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’

Possible. First thing Google One made me think of was that they're getting into the gaming space.

Re: Google One

#192

"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…

Sounds like something The Queen might enquire for looking herself up on Google, "How does one Google one?".

> How does one Google oneself

Re: Google One

#193

"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…

Names are hard. Maybe "Google Bundle"?

Re: Google One

#194
post #82

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.

Linux is something like 2% market share.

We're also the only set of users that will actually saturate the oversold storage while still burning through that $2.50 worth of customer service with a single question prefaced with "hi, I run Linux."

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#196
It’s nice that you can store photos and it’s nice that you can maybe actually finally get support from them, but I don’t understand why those two things are bundled together. Their product offerings are typically sort of baffling

Re: Google One

#197

"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…

Names are hard. Maybe "Google Bundle"?

Google OneStorage or Google OnePlace (for everything.. gedit?)

Re: Google One

#198

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? :)

I tend to manually back up digital assets to Google/Dropbox/OneDrive by Zipping by category with good file naming protocol including date, GPG encrypt the Zip files, and not depend on the trustworthyness of cloud providers. ‘Deep backups’

Also, high value digital artifacts like my book projects and customer work get backed up automatically to remote git servers.

I seldom do local backups anymore on my MacBook to TimeMachine, perhaps once a month, and for backing up my Linux laptop I only back up to multiple cloud providers and git remote services.

Re: Google One

#199
post #137

Does anybody really trust google with any of their services? It’s here today gone tomorrow.

Doesn’t seem to be the case with either GMail or Drive.

Re: Google One

#200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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’

Well it’s not an analogy. It’s just stealing a product name from a competitor, it really doesn’t matter if the products aren’t in the same space.

If Google created Google Windows and the product wasn’t an OS, it’s still a rip off right?

It’s one thing when it’s Apple/google maps because it’s a generic and descriptive mark, but One? Should have just gone full stop Google Windows.

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