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Google One is coming soon
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- xPhobophobia 8y agoAnutha wun
- ryan-allen 8y agoI'm not sure what this is? Is it a rebrand of Google Drive? EDIT: Yep, with more features! https://www.techradar.com/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-google-one https://www.techradar.com/news/everything-you-need-to-know-a...
- bitmapbrother 8y agoNo, it's not a re-brand. It's the name for their paid storage plans with live customer support. https://www.blog.google/products/google-one/one-simple-way-get-more-out-google/ https://www.blog.google/products/google-one/one-simple-way-g...
- isseu 8y agoThis would be an alternative of Google Drive?
- bitmapbrother 8y agoThis is the name of their paid storage offering with live customer support.
- Eyas 8y agoa Google-wide plan that includes Drive storage.
- kardianos 8y agoWith space shared between family members! Yay!
- BurningFrog 8y agoTime to start a family!
- cwyers 8y agoSo, they've made Google One and Google Drive, in an effort to have Google OneDrive in series instead of in parallel.
- wyc 8y agoWow, this is great. Where can I find more of your poetry?
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoI never thought another tech company could be more awkward than Microsoft at branding. I guess it’s just hard to name things.
- skosch 8y agoTo add, just a few years ago we had Ubuntu One, also a cloud storage service.
- askvictor 8y agoI'm kind of disappointed Ubuntu didn't sue Microsoft over the name. Given they had just had to rename from SkyDrive to OneDrive due to trademark infringement it would have been amusing to see them need to do it again for not having actually checked for similar services with similar names. Or maybe there was a payment to Ubuntu involved there.
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- LyalinDotCom 8y agoYes it is and hello from someone at Microsoft who has helped brand a few things. It’s really hard problem that is not easy to describe to others but branding in huge companies like these is hell. Though worth it when we get it right and make things clear. Trust me no one here branding wants it to suck.
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- omarforgotpwd 8y agoGoogle loves talking about things they're not ready to actually start doing yet.
- paxy 8y agoAnd then do them and retire them six months later.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoAnd then three months later I read about them and think "that sounds really interesting".
- AmericanChopper 8y agoBy that stage they will have relaunched a slightly different rebrand of the previous poorly conceived idea.
- bwang29 8y ago“Be among the first to know when Google One is available in your area” made me think why they're rolling out the service based on Area? Wonder if it is due to technical reasons or demographic reasons, or it is still in the process of "beta" and needs to be tweaked more for releasing to all areas at once?
- symbolepro 8y agoNo more cloud space required! Please stop marketing and selling cloud space.
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- seba_dos1 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067168
- pcurve 8y agoI guess they will eventually phase out Google Drive, which was actually a perfectly descriptive name. What a shame.
- hugs 8y ago"Google Drive" would be a good name for a self-driving car, too, though.
- askvictor 8y agoMight be a long term plan. When apple rebranded iBook to MacBook, it seemed weird at the time, but they presumably had the iDevice in the pipeline (as well as their iBooks eBook system). However, I think that One is the name of the overarching storage subscription/billing service, of which Drive, Photos and Mail (and possibly more) will consume. Also, Drive is getting to be a bit of an anachronism (like the floppy disk icon to save). Google Storage or something similar would be clearer.
- spking 8y agoAfter completely screwing so many of us over with that horrible File Stream "upgrade", I'll pass. I still have an orphaned local Google Drive folder that randomly stopped syncing to sort through and move to Dropbox.
- fermienrico 8y agoDropbox is leagues ahead of any file sharing software out there. They’re on a bright future after the IPO. Dropbox Paper is absolutely amazing.
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- dabernathy89 8y agoAnd yet I still can't easily get it to ignore `node_modules` folders.
- ReverseCold 8y agoPlease use git (or similar) for code. GitLab even has free private repos for personal projects. Dropbox is for binary files (like PDF, MSOffice, etc).
- pythonaut_16 8y agoSometimes you just want to share code between computers without committing it. Does Git have an easy way to share "uncommitted" code that doesn't involve committing it on a branch and rebaseing it later? I say this as a huge fan of Git, that's one scenario where a Dropbox folder is stronger than Git
- dabernathy89 8y agoDropbox is for whatever I want to put in it. Including code! Just because I keep my project folders inside of Dropbox doesn't mean i'm not using git.
- asah 8y agohaters, meh - I upgraded right away, saved a bunch of $, same interface. I'm happy.
- hn92933jd 8y agoI believe this is the GDPR compliant Google drive.
- geostyx 8y agoTo me this is the Amazon Prime for Google, with Drive storage + other perks.
- evrydayhustling 8y agoThe thing that really surprises me is "access to Google experts", which apparently means chat, email and phone [1]. Google has really avoided direct B2C interaction in the past; I wonder how they are developing this ability from scratch. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/
- givehimagun 8y agoIs this what Duo and Wavenet are for? They'll just have robots talking to us instead of humans. Maybe they are playing a different game.
- delroth 8y agoGoogle has ~always had chat, email, and phone support for most of their paid-for B2C products. For products like Pixel it's even integrated in the settings UI for example. https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7109524?hl=en&ref_topic=7084203 https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7109524?hl=en&r...
- evrydayhustling 8y agoGood point. I even have a pixel, have used support, and ignored this. Demonstrates what a small part of my interactions with Google are paid! Maybe that filter (a small fraction of Google accounts will become paid One accounts) means that there is no heculean effort to build a human support team at Google scale. It's interesting that Amazon has very arms length support for its 100M+ Prime users, even at a higher price point.
- foolrush 8y agoWaiting for the first person to suggest Canonical was years ahead of the curve...
- meesterdude 8y agothere's nothing here - why was this even posted?
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- dannyw 8y agoGoogle One is 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of Google Cloud Storage...
- ktta 8y agoIt might be because of the SLA guarantees Google Cloud provides. And it is commercial which means a markup.
- mey 8y agoAs someone actively using both Google Drive File Stream and Google Backup and Sync. For the love of god, fix your desktop software. Dropbox and OneDrive both understand the concept of filenames and collisions. It's very obvious that Google Drive is not a file system, especially when you have shared folders with multiple people.
- dawnerd 8y agoFilestream constantly crashes my Mac. It’s really frustrating. Trying to move a bunch of files really destroys it.
- CPAhem 8y agoThere are a few options for improved Google Drive clients. We use Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com https://syncdocs.com as it has end-to-end encryption. None of these clients are free, though, so perhaps you get what you pay for.
- vowelless 8y agoI am totally done with Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon. I want my independence back. How can I set this up myself without relying on the above mentioned service providers ?
- joenathanone 8y agoBy not asking anyone else to answer the question for you and actually doing it yourself, be independent.
- tree_of_item 8y agoThink of it as "Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon" vs. "the rest of us". There's no problem with asking other members of the community for help on self-hosting.
- rxhernandez 8y agoHear ye, hear ye! Junior developers you should listen to joenathanone and never ask more senior people! You should make us watch over your back everyday because of your silly hubris and for our fear of you delaying our project! Asking questions is stupid and for the feeble minded! Google is your only friend!
- joenathanone 8y agoHe is asking how he can completely replace Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon. Ok start by making an OS (desktop & mobile), a social networking platform (make sure to get all your friends to join), mobile phone hardware and build some warehouses and stuff, once your done with all that ping me and I will give you the next steps. Ask a real question and I would be happy to give a real answer.
- dd36 8y agoSynology Diskstation.
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- nafizh 8y agoI love Dropbox, I am a paid plus user. The syncing is amazing, and absolutely gets out of your way. You just have to put something, and forget about it. It's sad that they are slowly moving their focus towards businesses. While that is not a problem in and of itself, it seems individual users don't have much priority anymore.
- barhum 8y agoIt would be great if Google drive wouldn't use up my MacBook's battery so fast. All the time my cpu usage is at 100% when using Google Backup and sync. Something that other competitors have managed to do better than Google. Using dropbox at the moment.
- microcolonel 8y agoBeen using Syncthing these last few days, today it saved me about three hours of sending files to California just to download them back in the same office. Highly recommended if you understand and can afford the small amount of time you trade for functioning peer-to-peer transfers (which, in basically every case, are faster than client-server-client transfers).
- kapauldo 8y agoIs Dropbox doomed?