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Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by bitL »

pgt wrote: post #68

The naive name for this product bundling would be Google Bundle, GBundle, but that would rub regulators the wrong way. The first rule of UX and branding is: don't make me think. Using a digit in a brand name is a question mark, just like Google Plus. Or was it Google+? It gets in the way of the meat of your message. Why would Google would rub up against Microsoft OneDrive with Google (One?) Drive? Is it going to be G…

> Why would Google would rub up against Microsoft OneDrive with Google (One?) Drive?

Beancounters running the asylum. Corporate envy: "Their name is cooler than ours!"

Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by ethbro »

donald123 wrote: post #90
ianstormtaylor wrote: post #63

I think this article is missing the bigger picture—this isn't about storage. This is Google trying to copy the success of Amazon Prime. They're going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription. The storage plans and priority support are just the first benefit they've tied to the subscription. > In addition to access to experts, the company also promises to provide subscribers w…

If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It's hard to know what 'Google One' means from just the name. And there is 'Android One', which is designed for low-end devices, it would really confuse people when they talk about android one, google one. I can see more people will refer it as "google one drive", and microsoft also has its "One Drive", that's even more confusing to all the average users.

To this day, I still don't understand what was different about any of the MS "Live!" products from the 00s.

Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by eigenvector »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #51

> Be among the first to know when Google One is available in your area. What does my area have to do with an online storage offering? I'm not giving them my zipcode. Anyway, taking all bets on whether this doppelganger will be killed off, or whether two more doppelgangers will be launched.

Google is the market leader in region-locking things that have no logical reason to be region-locked.

Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by zantana »

With storage it always seems that the devil's in the details.

Are there any upload/download caps in place? Are they documented?

Are they scanning it?

Downsampling it?

Checking it against some DMCA database?

What happens when Junior shares his Bluray rips with his buddies at school?

Are they blocking rclone? How about 6 months from now?

Net neutrality is toast, caps are the norm and they're closing the service in 6 months, but it will take you a year to get the files back, is there a snowball offer?

After the one drive and amazon about faces, can anyone take them seriously.

Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by Spearchucker »

on_and_off wrote: post #94
yodon wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps it’s partly a rational defensive move in case the GDPR wreaks havok with the ad-based web ecosystem? I’m looking forward to reading whatever Ben Thompson (stratechery.com) has to say on the undelying business model implications

I would love to see a not ads supported Google. I am not convinced this can happen. It seems that ads is the only form of micro payment that really works at scale . However, I love Google Products. Photos is awesome. Inbox makes my mail manageable, etc. I am sadly probably in a minority, but I would pay a good price to have all these products without any ad targeting.

I in turn am ambivalent about a not ads supported Google. Like you, I love (loved) their products. However even if they said they're not ad supported I can't believe them. And so I've migrated to other vendors. It'll take an act of god to get me to use any of their stuff again.

Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by ethbro »

clhodapp wrote: post #115
on_and_off wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to see a not ads supported Google. I am not convinced this can happen. It seems that ads is the only form of micro payment that really works at scale . However, I love Google Products. Photos is awesome. Inbox makes my mail manageable, etc. I am sadly probably in a minority, but I would pay a good price to have all these products without any ad targeting.

What's the harm of a single "premium" no-ads Google that most people don't use? The ongoing cost to maintain two versions that are differentiated that way seems pretty low, given that it's really just removing some very self-contained UI modules... They could price it in such a way that it is just as profitable as running ads for those "high value" users, even if that further reduces adoption and still be able to rea…

I think the general resistance to doing away with ads is related to revenue ceiling.

Ad revenue at Google / Facebook scale is a magic money box. In that they can tell Wall Street (and deliver) ever increasing monetization per user.

Once they start directly charging users, they can't increase that invisibly via "better" ad tech anymore. Any increase is directly passed on to the consumer. AND ceiling just became users * subscription fee.

Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by Spearchucker »

icebraining wrote: post #128
crooked-v wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would never sign up for a Google subscription service a la Prime, because I have absolutely zero trust that they wouldn't yank any random service out from under me ten months later. By contrast, every Amazon service I've dealt with has been either explicitly experimental (and not "experimental" in the Google sense, but something that actually seems like a distinct trial run) or has lasted for years at a minimum.

Which Google services haven't lasted years? The only one I can think of is Wave, and that was pretty experimental.

Not so much about how long they've lasted, it's about products being EOL'd with no recourse. And there are many! Like zeitgeist, wave, sidewiki, aardvark, pagecreator, reader, Talk, iGoogle, Buzz, Picnic.

Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

sjs382 wrote: post #118
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdotally, I've been extremely unimpressed with Google's Fi / Nexus / Pixel support. I had a Nexus phone on Fi that -- while I was holding it in my hand texting -- it went black and never turned on again, for no reason. I assumed the battery died -- even though the UI displayed that I had most of my battery still. No, it completely bricked. Coincidentally and non-conspiratorially, it might've been ~2 weeks after my…

I am a Project Fi customer that bought a Nexus 5X through them. After abotu 16 months of use, I ran into the well-documented "bootloop" issue that went along with these phones. They replaced the Nexus 5X with overnight shipping. I experienced the same issue with the replacement device about 2 months after the original warranty expired. They replaced it out-of-warranty, with overnight shipping, for free. Each time, I…

Sure wish I would've got this experience. Maybe I just got screwed because they were out of the 5X.
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