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Yeesh... I used this with colleagues during Java One and it was a godsend for meeting up. Don't like the placing off all the google eggs in one Google+ basket
by hoopism 13y ago
Yeesh... I used this with colleagues during Java One and it was a godsend for meeting up. Don't like the placing off all the google eggs in one Google+ basket. As a user of google+ it may be beneficial... but for those of us who liked to pick and choose functional components it's obnoxious (I recognize we are fewer and thus less financially important to google... just griping).
- hahainternet 13y agoHow exactly is it obnoxious to have a unified interface to manage and organise your friends? It seems to me that having to manage some on G+ and then some in Latitude would be more annoying and more obnoxious.
- glesica 13y agoBecause Google's location service might be the best, but other components might not. What if someone doesn't want to use G+ to "organize [their] friends", they just want a service that provides locations? The way Google did things previously was much more modular, you could pick and choose among products that each did basically one thing. Kind of Unix-y actually.
- hahainternet 13y agoYou're indicting G+ for not allowing modular friend organisation. That's the whole point of 'circles'. Ok so you just want a service that provides locations? If you have a Google account then you can use Plus, that service provides locations, done. You never have to see or hear or deal with any parts of G+ you don't want to. You don't have to mix friend groups up or assign people to only one label etc.
- hoopism 13y agoNo question this is probably a better offering for the majority of users... both G+ users and non... it just doesn't work with my flow. I like the analogy of wanting a radio and being offered a car. I could sit in the car and not touch anything else and just listen to the radio... but the fact is I now own a car... even sitting idle a G+ account (or car) has implications.
- abrahamsen 13y agoI don't see the problem of using Google+ for Location only, if that is the only part you care about.
- samrift 13y agoIt is not (for me). I manage people who's location I want to see in Latitude, which is a tool I use to see people's location. With the combining, I need to manage an entire social networking tool in order to see locations. I just want the radio, not a car with a radio in it. This in addition to convincing people who have never even heard of google+ that they should sign up and manage for themselves, rather than simply accept an invitation email and forget about it. It's like asking for scissors, and being handed a giant swiss army knife. Sure, it has scissors in it - but they are not as good, harder to find, and mixed in with a bunch of stuff I just don't want or need.
- hahainternet 13y ago> I need to manage an entire social networking tool in order to see locations. This is hyperbole, you do not need to 'manage' anything. You put people in circles and you are done. It's also very likely that your friends do have a Google account, so it's not really too far fetched. Oh and for what it's worth, if someone handed me a swiss army knife instead of scissors, I would just use the scissors on it, but I guess ymmv.