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A policy change that sabotages an idea that Google itself gave many people just a few years ago. Google's "Dear Sophie" ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhP

A policy change that sabotages an idea that Google itself gave many people just a few years ago. Google's "Dear Sophie" ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas

inetknght 6y ago
I wonder how close that skirts laws around false advertising
- vageli 6y ago
  > I wonder how close that skirts laws around false advertising At the time it wasn't fraudulent, though.
  - inetknght 6y ago
    Wasn't it?
    - markdown 6y ago
      It wasn't.
  - adrianN 6y ago
    If you make "forever" claims in your ads I feel like you shouldn't be able to say later that "forever" was true five years ago, but today it retroactively means a finite timespan.
- kuschku 6y ago
  Same with the Google Pixel thing, where Pixels had less storage than iPhones, but Google constantly ran ads saying that wasn't an issue because you'd have unlimited storage for all your photos and RAWs, forever, with no restrictions, as long as they were auto-uploaded by Google Photos from the Google Camera on your Google Pixel. And now even compressed jpegs have a size and time limit.
  - disillusioned 6y ago
    In fairness, they've persisted this policy for the given phones being advertised. The OG Pixel said original quality for life, and that persists. Every other Pixel until Pixel 4 had a time limit on unlimited quality original uploads, and THAT persists. And even for Pixel 4 & Pixel 5, they're persisting the unlimited "high quality" storage option that they advertised the phones as having. Don't get me wrong, I'm annoyed enough about them dropping unlimited original on the 4/5 that I download the 4k videos off of Google Photos and re-upload them over an old Pixel I have to get them to not count against my storage limit. But the ads have matched their current commitment, and they haven't reneged on any of the policies advertised for that given phone, at least.
    - kuschku 6y ago
      > The OG Pixel said original quality for life, and that persists Mine was ended. I've got an OG Pixel.

inetknght 6y ago

I wonder how close that skirts laws around false advertising

vageli 6y ago
> I wonder how close that skirts laws around false advertising At the time it wasn't fraudulent, though.
- inetknght 6y ago
  Wasn't it?
  - markdown 6y ago
    It wasn't.
- adrianN 6y ago
  If you make "forever" claims in your ads I feel like you shouldn't be able to say later that "forever" was true five years ago, but today it retroactively means a finite timespan.
kuschku 6y ago
Same with the Google Pixel thing, where Pixels had less storage than iPhones, but Google constantly ran ads saying that wasn't an issue because you'd have unlimited storage for all your photos and RAWs, forever, with no restrictions, as long as they were auto-uploaded by Google Photos from the Google Camera on your Google Pixel. And now even compressed jpegs have a size and time limit.
- disillusioned 6y ago
  In fairness, they've persisted this policy for the given phones being advertised. The OG Pixel said original quality for life, and that persists. Every other Pixel until Pixel 4 had a time limit on unlimited quality original uploads, and THAT persists. And even for Pixel 4 & Pixel 5, they're persisting the unlimited "high quality" storage option that they advertised the phones as having. Don't get me wrong, I'm annoyed enough about them dropping unlimited original on the 4/5 that I download the 4k videos off of Google Photos and re-upload them over an old Pixel I have to get them to not count against my storage limit. But the ads have matched their current commitment, and they haven't reneged on any of the policies advertised for that given phone, at least.
  - kuschku 6y ago
    > The OG Pixel said original quality for life, and that persists Mine was ended. I've got an OG Pixel.