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Re: Google One

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Post by dragonwriter »

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.

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

If you don't mind multiple accounts and want to optimize on price, just get one 100GB subscription (for the expert help benefit), and lots of free accounts.

Re: Google One

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Post by catacombs »

ilikehurdles wrote: post #239

Can someone explain to me why google really wants me to move my photos out of Drive and into Google Photos? What’s in it for them?

Everyone putting everything they own into one place will help Google acquire more data about its users. It's fox asking all the hens to put their eggs in one basket.

It's optional now. But, give it a few years, and no one will be allowed to use Google services without all their stuff on One.

Re: Google One

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Post by misterdoubt »

ilikehurdles wrote: post #239

Can someone explain to me why google really wants me to move my photos out of Drive and into Google Photos? What’s in it for them?

Google Photos is a key source of data for their work on image processing, classification, etc...

Re: Google One

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Post by jimijazz »

My personal approach to storage is to prescind as much from it as I can. I'm constantly deleting old photos and media that I create, as I believe that I will have less and less time to even see them again in the future, so I'm trying to live as light as possible and keep only the 'prime' material.

Re: Google One

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Post by adam12 »

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

and Microsoft OneDrive

Re: Google One

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Post by jerf »

xelhark wrote: post #213
Rjevski wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would anyone trust them to not silently still collect personal data? For example, even if they don't need the data now because you're paying not to see ads, they might still collect it so that they can show you "better" ads if/when you stop paying.

There would be no economic advantage to that kind of behavior. I'm a fan of paid services rather than ad-based services because it switches the focus. The customer is the person that pays, not the advertising company, so the company will have an economic advantage to give a better service to you, not to the ad companies. Something like that would just jeopardise the customer for no particular economic gain, so yeah,…

I agree there wouldn't have been (much of) an advantage to that sort of behavior if Google had started with paid services from the beginning and never depended on advertising.

However, now that we're where we are, it's just so easy to keep tracking you, since they'd actually have to go out of their way to remove it from their tech stack, that doing it on the off chance that either A: someday you'll stop being a paid customer or B: someday a PM will need to show more revenue and they decide to stick ads on their paid service anyhow, the combined probability of which approaches 100%, is worth doing it. Path dependencies can cause strange things to happen.

I can't trust a company who has tracking everything and everybody woven into their tech stack at every level to stop.

Re: Google One

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Post by mikestew »

pjc50 wrote: post #140
kowdermeister wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ironically OneDrive used to be SkyDrive until Sky sued them. I guess everyone's switching to numbers because words are all trademarked, apart from the phoneme strings generated by the pharma industry.

When Porsche was releasing the 911 back in the 60s, Porsche wanted to name it “901”. Except Peugeot had a trademark on three-digit model numbers with a zero in the middle...

Re: Google One

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Post by skykooler »

kowdermeister wrote: post #128
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.

Google One + Google Drive? There's no way that nomenclature will ever be confused with OneDrive... /s

Re: Google One

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Post by mikestew »

jm547ster wrote: post #181
will_brown wrote: post #177

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’

Had they called it “iDrive”, or summat, the rip-off would have been obvious even though Apple has no such named product. Little accessory makers can get away with such naming because a) “Cheap-Ass iAccessories” isn’t a household name and b) their product probably has something to do with Apple stuff.

For a company like Google, I find it a bit embarrassing.

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