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Re: Google One

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kyrra wrote: post #264
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 quote Google's code of conduct as it exists today: > And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up! https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ Media headlines from the time gave the impression that it was removed, which was absolutely false.

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Post by dmix »

PakG1 wrote: post #79
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…

This is a fantastic example and explanation (kudos to you) of value pricing vs cost pricing.

Which basically every book on pricing recommends doing - pricing on value. People always apply Walmart style retail pricing models onto everything - including most entrepreneurs to their own detriment. Which is a terrible idea for software and most other non-retail/non-low-margin businesses.

Re: Google One

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arbitrage wrote: post #304

Hey Google ... I know you're here, looking for how this is going to go over. It seems like a nice idea. I'm not on board with any new Google platform unless I have some sort of assurance that you're just not going to kill this off in two years, or let it suffer a slow death of neglect and attrition. Thanks, but you need to grow up a bit, Google.

This isn't some side project like Wave that they'll cut off. It sounds like a pretty core business. If anything it will get renamed and take on a different form in a couple yrs, but I doubt they'd ever stop offering a cloud service like Drive.

But still, this is a very valid point. It's hard to trust any Google service and it's risky to make any significant investment of time structuring your life around them. This is why I don't use Google Music anymore. I invest far too much time into my playlists and music collections to trust them.

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Post by eftpotrm »

"Space for everything! Your life, uncompressed! Top standard tier, 200GB!"

OK, I'm a photographer. But I literally outgrew a 300GB drive about 10 years ago, and genuinely shot nearly 100GB in one week on a trip earlier in the year. Heck, my music collection's over 100GB. (No, I don't stream. Too much obscure stuff, too many low bit rate feeds.)

Those numbers. Bit basic. I remember the days when Google's storage offerings were light years ahead of the competition and effectively infinite for most uses.

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eftpotrm wrote: post #314

"Space for everything! Your life, uncompressed! Top standard tier, 200GB!" OK, I'm a photographer. But I literally outgrew a 300GB drive about 10 years ago, and genuinely shot nearly 100GB in one week on a trip earlier in the year. Heck, my music collection's over 100GB. (No, I don't stream. Too much obscure stuff, too many low bit rate feeds.) Those numbers. Bit basic. I remember the days when Google's storage offer…

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Post by wstrange »

mrhappyunhappy wrote: post #158
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…

I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to see a privacy concern comment. Totally agree with you by the way. It feels like there is an ever growing privacy awareness yet companies like google keep pushing the cloud storage for typical consumer. I’d be curious to know how average person feels about storing their private photos in google’s servers.

My biggest fear is accidentally losing or deleting all my family photos. I don't trust myself to run proper backups and archival.

I think the average consumer is in the same boat. They want someone else to take care of this problem.

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Post by freehunter »

eftpotrm wrote: post #314

"Space for everything! Your life, uncompressed! Top standard tier, 200GB!" OK, I'm a photographer. But I literally outgrew a 300GB drive about 10 years ago, and genuinely shot nearly 100GB in one week on a trip earlier in the year. Heck, my music collection's over 100GB. (No, I don't stream. Too much obscure stuff, too many low bit rate feeds.) Those numbers. Bit basic. I remember the days when Google's storage offer…

>for most uses

>100GB in one week

I'm willing to bet most users don't use 100GB per week of cloud storage. It seems like your expectation of "effectively infinite for most uses" is still true, you just don't fit the definition of "most uses".

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Post by throwaway98434 »

arbitrage wrote: post #304

Hey Google ... I know you're here, looking for how this is going to go over. It seems like a nice idea. I'm not on board with any new Google platform unless I have some sort of assurance that you're just not going to kill this off in two years, or let it suffer a slow death of neglect and attrition. Thanks, but you need to grow up a bit, Google.

My employer uses gsuite and managing google cookies in a multi-login scenario is sufficiently annoying that I simply avoid using google services altogether.

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Post by marcosdumay »

wyldfire wrote: post #252
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…

> "Google one" sounds like... nothing. "What is it???" It sounds precisely like Amazon's "Prime" brand, and it's no coincidence. It's a sunk-cost feature to convince you to come back (like membership shopping clubs - Costco, Sams). Unfortunately I don't think it has the draw of 'free shipping' (+ music/TV/etc).

Prime has a well established meaning and predates Amazon by, well, probably centuries. It is also well aligned with their original usage, in that preferred customers could pay more to get better treatment (faster deliveries and customer service response).
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