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Re: Google One

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richrichardsson wrote: post #94
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…

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

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Re: Google One

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Post by mda »

TootsMagoon wrote: post #272

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.

I hear this often but usually lacks explanation, can you elaborate?

Re: Google One

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Post by nitrogen »

mikestew wrote: post #250
jm547ster wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Who ripped off whom?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoGear#iPhone

The "i" in all of Apple's names stands for Internet in 1990s nomenclature.

Similarly the word "one" predates any usage by MS.

Re: Google One

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Post by kodablah »

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…

To be fair, this stuff is probably not for the privacy conscious (and neither is FB). I doubt they mind you not signing up, you are not their target. Lots of other people are happy to give them all of their data, and that's ok.

Re: Google One

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Post by vasili111 »

ahofmann wrote: post #43
sharmi wrote: post #16

Google One = Google Drive + more space + Customer Service for around $2 a month. Customer Service is not called Customer Service but Google Experts. What does this mean for actual service? The thing I like/jumps out for me is no compressing of images. That is one of the reasons I decided to go with Backblaze for backup. I would still stay with backblaze as I am not so confident about Google keeping the product around…

> I have managed to setup a upload workflow for Backblaze on my linux machine without going through a browser. Would it be possible for you to share your way of doing this? I would be very interested in B2 access without browser.

Duplicati 2. It is still beta but quite stable.

Re: Google One

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Post by Sargos »

ryandvm wrote: post #215

> You're currently signed in to your G Suite account. Switch to your personal Google Account to upgrade. Ugh... Google never misses an opportunity to shit on its most ardent supporters - the people with personal G-Suite domains.

Organizational accounts have a different storage plan they can use that's more suited to their needs. This is only for personal accounts. And no, you don't have a personal account, which hopefully you knew 5 years ago when that happened.

Re: Google One

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Post by iamgopal »

Wait for Google one Allo with desktop client, which will be neither compatible with old Google one and also only support large files, but it automatically recognise your neighborhood and suggest you to buy from nearby store.
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