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This isn't part of GSuite and therefore isn't subject to the same SLA. I wonder if the pricing will stick like this forever or if it will eventually be bundled,
by easton 6y ago
This isn't part of GSuite and therefore isn't subject to the same SLA. I wonder if the pricing will stick like this forever or if it will eventually be bundled, since Microsoft already includes something like this in 365 (and many companies probably already pay someone else for this type of functionality, like Airtable).
I'd be a little scared of paying for something in the Google incubator, knowing how they cull stuff that isn't popular. But maybe it'll be successful and go into the bundle.
- stephanerangaya 6y agoGood point, yeah
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago"The Google incubator" is particularly accurate here, if you look at the tags on the blog: "Area 120". This is an app developed by one of their "let these people write random stuff" groups: https://area120.google.com/ https://area120.google.com/ To my knowledge, nothing majorly successful or long-term supported has ever come out of Area 120.
- throwaways885 6y agoArea 120 is definitely not a bunch of random people coming together. The projects there are fully funded and do have corporate backing. They launch separate from the rest of Google, with the positive end result being absorbed by another team into a fully supported product.
- baskire 6y agoName one project that’s lived long term that came out of a120? By lived I do mean no changes to end user for the absorption into another team.
- drewda 6y ago> To my knowledge, nothing majorly successful or long-term supported has ever come out of Area 120. Instead try evaluating the success of Area 120 by the number of Google staff members who have had their "incredible journey" itch scratched and then returned to a product or infrastructure team at Google when their Area 120 project is EOL'ed. From a corporate perspective, it's worth spending some money on throw-away projects to retain staff who might otherwise quit to pursue an actual startup.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoI definitely understand why it benefits Google. But I don't see why a user should ever bother with an Area 120 project.
- drewda 6y agoAgreed
- zerkten 6y agoI'm surprised it isn't there from the start, but some flexibility to sell this into organizations which have other suites is probably valuable for getting a hook in. My guess would be that they'll move it into the bundle at some point, but if it fails they might be able to avoid the price of long-term maintenance.
- mrweasel 6y agoIt also makes you wonder: If this isn’t part of GSuite, then where does it belong in the Google organisation? If Tables is just it’s own thing, not related to search, GSuite, GCP or ads then it’s already dead. At some level it must suck to know that you’ve created a culture where people don’t even care to try out your new fancy gizmo, because they expect you to abandon to quickly it’s simply not worth investing you time in. Or does Google not know that how they’re perceived?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> If this isn’t part of GSuite, then where does it belong in the Google organisation? I suspect if it were to ever emerge from the “internal incubator” Area 120 is described as, it would become a GSuite feature. > Or does Google not know that how they’re perceived? I think Google knows that people in certain circles talking nothing but that view. They probably also have real stats on how their experiments are picked up and used, and I suspect they aren't at all what the people who think that the perception you refer to do instead public consciousness would predict.
- jfoster 6y ago> I think Google knows that people in certain circles talking nothing but that view. They probably also have real stats on how their experiments are picked up and used, and I suspect they aren't at all what the people who think that the perception you refer to do instead public consciousness would predict. It has to depend a lot on what type of product/service it is, too. For anything consumer facing, I imagine they don't see this effect harming take-up at all. It probably doesn't affect businesses looking to take-up the more established services like GSuite, but I have a really hard time believing that tech-savvy businesses are looking at any new APIs or services within GCP without considering what their lifetime will be.