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Re: Google One
#382Easy with the criticism folks. This is just the first version. All the confusion will disappear with Google One 2.0
I'll wait for Google One 4.3 API 34 Nobby Nobbs 17.3.1 Libraries 12.22
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#383Name is terrible. So, Google One is only about storage. Google Music is different subscription. I would laugh if google would make some Play Store subscription and call it Google Everything. Then you'll have to get Google One and Everything.
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#384"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…
whats Stripe mean? Whats Google mean? Whats Uber mean? Paul Graham has an essay about how the name of your company doesn't really mean anything, and you should always pick a name with the .com available.
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#385"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 forgot the golden rule of user experience design. People spend the vast majority of their time not using your product.
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#386"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 all kinds of built in positive connotations. “One” is pretty meaningless here.
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#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "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 all kinds of built in positive connotations. “One” is pretty meaningless here.
Interesting comment; as a non-native speaker "prime" evokes the idea of f'(x) and prime numbers. Prime is pretty silly (e.g., "Optimus Prime") and might be an inside joke.
What are these positive connotations? To me prime sounds neutral, like a fact.
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#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
how could you trademark 0s in the middle? All 3 digits one maybe? that would be 9 * 9 = 81 separate trademarks. Seems like it's too comprehensive. 92818181818 0 1. Probably didn't get that, eh!
how could you trademark 0s in the middle?
By talking to the French patent office, circa 1950s, apparently. I don't know what you're on about with the rest, but I'm just parroting what's well-documented, you're welcome to go look it up.
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#390"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".
I will admit 100GB a week is an unusual case, I've certainly not replicated it myself. But there'll be a lot of people with half-decent cameras for which 200GB is nowhere near 'everything'.