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Post by SamuelAdams »

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.

Agreed, when I read the title of the post, I thought this would be about self-driving cars.

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Post by IgorPartola »

Is Google just a prepetual exercise in branding? They create a slightly different product, get it to popularity, kill it, announce a new brand to replace it, rinse, repeat.

Re: Google One

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Post by hawkweed »

Matthias247 wrote: post #38
sccxy wrote: post #2

Google OneDrive?

I thought that first. With the exception that they exactly leave the Onedrive storage class (1TB, 60$/year) out. If you are happy with 200GB, the Google offer seems to be a lot cheaper. If you need up to 1TB, you pay twice than for Onedrive. Theoretically you can even count Office 365 Home as a 5TB, 90$ option, which makes it even yet cheaper. However that's a bit more of an unfair comparison, since it would involve…

I think that microsoft did really good job with their Office 365 home package.

Each of the 6 accounts gets: - 1TB for OneDrive - Office licence - 60mins for Skype - 50GB for Outlook

Initially I wanted to go with the Google Drive because I'm using Android, but after trying android and mac one drive clients i decided to go with one drive.

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Post by dbg31415 »

My experience with Google's Backup and Sync means I would never trust Google again.

I put everything on Google's Backup and Sync... and was initially happy enough with it as a replacement for Dropbox.

Then my laptop crashed.

When I went to restore, I was limited to copying files down 2 GB at a time.

Worse... the process didn't tell me that, I had to figure it out after doing a few downloads and finding that not all my files made it. There was no warning, no errors. I hit download on a folder, it came down "successfully" but when I looked at the contents locally vs. what was on Google Drive it never matched up.

Can't stress enough how shitty this was. I had to manually save everything and manually check to make sure it all saved. I'm still not convinced I got it all downloaded correctly. Took probably 100 hours of my time. Never a single error message if you tried to download a folder that was bigger than 2 GB, but behind the scenes it was truncating files.

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Post by _JasonE »

Google One sounds like a device to me. I think it would be clearer to take the existing "Google Family" service they already offer (of which Google One is feature) and add "Shared expanded storage on Drive, Gmail, and more" as an optional feature.

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Post by kbutler »

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…

They bought into their own subliminal messaging. They just really like hearing "Google Won".

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Post by falcor84 »

And yet again they don't care about gsuite users. I have a gsuite setup for everyone in the family, for pretty much exactly the same needs that are addressed by Google One, but apparently there's absolutely no way to get the benefits of both.

Re: Google One

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Post by [deleted] »

burgerboy wrote: post #208
will_brown wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So any name sharing a word with someone else's name is a ripoff. OK.

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Post by mtgx »

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 also seems to symbolize Google's real new mission statement, changed from "Organizing the world's information" to "Collecting all of your information*, whether they publicly admit to it or not.
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