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Re: Google One

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Post by trumped »

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

at least they didn't go from Google (v1) -> Google 360 -> Google One -> Google X

Re: Google One

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Post by TootsMagoon »

Just a reminder. You are the product Google sells. This is a premium service to make you a more premium product that Google will sell to advertisers. We should all be looking at different (non advertising) models for the services they are offering. Hyper-targeted advertising and all the risks associated with it is not good for society.

Re: Google One

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Post by Yizahi »

skybrian wrote: post #238
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.

I don't really get why people assume they're chaotic evil rather than lawful evil. This is a large company with lots of lawyers. Modulo bugs, they're going to make sure anything they do is covered by the privacy policy rather than leave an opening to be sued. So the answer is that I would trust that it (mostly) doesn't happen if the legal terms say it won't.

It is not illegal to spy on users, you just need to call it "metadata".

Re: Google One

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Post by malchow »

I pay $5/yr (a legacy plan that will disappear if I ever have a billing information imperfection) for 40GB Gmail storage, which is all I need. This announcement reminds me that Google has no respect for pricing, SLA, data mining transparency, consumer terms stability, support ("Google Expertsbutprobablynotouremployees!") or consistency. The future is easy to see: "Drive is now One!"

So this announcement is the thing that will finally get me to export all of my data and leave Gmail for personal use altogether. Congratulations, One Team!

Re: Google One

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Post by Rjevski »

skybrian wrote: post #238
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.

I don't really get why people assume they're chaotic evil rather than lawful evil. This is a large company with lots of lawyers. Modulo bugs, they're going to make sure anything they do is covered by the privacy policy rather than leave an opening to be sued. So the answer is that I would trust that it (mostly) doesn't happen if the legal terms say it won't.

Isn't there a consistent history of shady practices from such companies, like purposely ambiguous language in the Android location activity preferences, or similar stuff from Facebook when they try to make you share more data with them like contacts?

Re: Google One

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Post by cloverich »

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

Its not a rip off, its just a very generic name. Tons of products do this, I assume because its relatively safe play when you can't (or don't want) a more standout branding.

Re: Google One

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Post by wodenokoto »

zyx321 wrote: post #69
wodenokoto wrote: post #40

A lot of people are saying the page is really busy. Visiting on mobile (Firefox) this is probably one of the quietest landing pages I've seen: A logo A headline Two short sentences A sign up box A note saying that paying customers will eventually automatically be upgraded. That's it. No pictures. No movies. No backgrounds. No parallax. No nothing. Did they completely change the landing page since this was posted 20 m…

Is the sign up box for a mailing list so you'll be informed when it becomes available in your country? For me (Germany, mobile Firefox) it's completely overladen with animations that showcase all the wonderful file formats you can store on your cloud drive.

No, it does say anything directly along the lines of "get updated when available in your region", but if you read between the lines, it could definitely be understood that way, now that you mention it.

I'm visiting from Scandinavia.

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