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Re: Google One

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Post by ajmurmann » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:37 PM UTC

agildehaus wrote: post #121

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…

Waymo named their self-driving service "Waymo One", so it seems there's some force within Alphabet pushing for that name to be used everywhere? Besides it being a service you pay for, there aren't many similarities between Google One and Waymo One and I think it'll just be confusing.

I guess someone there really liked the naming of their XBox.

Re: Google One

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Post by shashankjain16 » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:39 PM UTC

How significant would the revenue from these services? I mean, if it's quite significant, doesn't it make sense to offer an "ad-free" plan where they do not track the user and do not show them ads. Only a small portion of their tracking user base would be affected and they would not lose many of the privacy aware users as customers.

Re: Google One

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Post by roland35 » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:46 PM UTC

I have paying for Google Drive/One for a year now and having tried Dropbox and Amazon Cloud, GDrive is the easiest for my family. It is seamless for us to back up all camera and phone pictures from both Android and iOS and is much faster and less buggy than Amazon.

I do agree with people's reservations about privacy and longevity with Google, their products don't seem to last for long!

Re: Google One

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Post by kyrra » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:50 PM UTC

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.

Re: Google One

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:51 PM UTC

kbutler wrote: post #227

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…

They bought into their own subliminal messaging. They just really like hearing "Google Won".

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Re: Google One

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Post by gaff33 » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:53 PM UTC

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…

Perhaps this is going the away of Amazon Prime - which started off as subscription for faster shipping but grew to be a one-stop subscription for various things?

Re: Google One

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Post by catacombs » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:53 PM UTC

PunchTornado wrote: post #113

joosters wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems unclear. You get access to google ‘experts’, but they don’t sound like employees to me.

oh, are they chat bots?

Of course. It's Google.

Re: Google One

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Post by theandrewbailey » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:54 PM UTC

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

Microsoft also likes to add 365 and Live to their product names, and (to me) seems to be moving away from using One in new products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_software

Re: Google One

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Post by jillesvangurp » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:54 PM UTC

powercf wrote: post #126

iKevinShah wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most probably they'll follow the path like other products have followed: Google Keep -> Keep -> Keep Notes -> Notes (In near future)

Google One ⇒ One ⇒ One Two ⇒ Two?

No, they killed Google Plus ;-)

Re: Google One

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Post by acdha » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:56 PM UTC

You'd think an advertising company would be better at, well, advertising. All of the listed benefits at the top of the page are either things everyone has already been using with the exception of full-quality photos, which was previously available as a paid option with the same pricing, and unspecified additional promotional features.

It seems like the main improvements are adding family plans to match Apple and having presumably not-chatbot support but that requires scrolling a long way down the page.