Google One is About To Hit 100 Million Subscribers (9to5google.com) 34
During Alphabet's Q4 2023 earnings call, Sundar Pichai announced that Google One is about to cross 100 million subscribers. From a report: The CEO said Google One is "doing incredibly well with strong user growth." Pichai highlighted how it "provides expanded storage, unlocks exclusive features in Google products, and allows [the company] to build a strong relationship with [its] most engaged users."
The consumer-facing subscription today includes storage (100 GB, 200 GB, 2 TB, 5 TB, 10 TB, 20 TB, and 30 TB tiers are available), which can be shared with up to five other accounts. You also get more Google Photos editing features, Workspace premium, VPN by Google One, dark web monitoring, 3-10% back on the Google Store, and additional customer support. In the US, pricing starts at $1.99 per month for 100 GB, while a popular 2 TB "Premium" plan is $99.99 annually.
The consumer-facing subscription today includes storage (100 GB, 200 GB, 2 TB, 5 TB, 10 TB, 20 TB, and 30 TB tiers are available), which can be shared with up to five other accounts. You also get more Google Photos editing features, Workspace premium, VPN by Google One, dark web monitoring, 3-10% back on the Google Store, and additional customer support. In the US, pricing starts at $1.99 per month for 100 GB, while a popular 2 TB "Premium" plan is $99.99 annually.
Give it a year and... (Score:5, Funny)
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Re:Give it a year and... (Score:4)
That's thread, everyone. Done in one, all that needed to be said.
Last one here turn out the lights.
Re: Give it a year and... (Score:1)
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Anyone know what the hell happened to bandwidth cost? I don't buy that increased electricity is the issue, we've seen massive improvements in power efficiency and cycles per watt. My gut wants to say it's the same price gouging [fortune.com] following market consolidation we see everywhere in the econo
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Google's per byte costs must be some of the lowest in the world. YouTube alone has incredible bandwidth requirements, and Google owns some of the backbone infrastructure.
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Indeed. Google cannot make a profit on anything but ads and hence all their ventures only serve to serve and "improve" ads. Once the hype is over, everything else gets shut down. They probably only still do Android because it got too large to shut down too quickly.
Google Photos worked as planned (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, I know there are workarounds and alternative apps, but for the typical user (the wife) she doesn't want to deal with the hassle of learning something new.
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I pay for a Microsoft family plan that includes 1TB of storage per user and a bunch of other stuff. I have a Pixel and OneDrive uploads all photos to its storage. It's actually a bit of a pain to keep telling Google not to back up photos to its storage. I seem to have to tell it a few times a month that I really, really, really am sure that I don't want to do it. Sometimes, even though I know for a fact that my photos are going to OneDrive, the scary language Google throws at me about photos not being backe
Re:Google Photos worked as planned (Score:4, Informative)
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I have never tried using OD4B. My MS account is on the personal side for my wife and I. I have never had a problem with it. I would even say it works quite well.
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Using Onedrive for business for photo uploading is total trash. It rarely works correctly. I have to have the employees use google photos to move the pics off the phone and into sharepoint.
One of the annoyances is what happens when non-tech employees with iPhones try to add pics to OD4B, because they've been told that's the officially-approved/secure way to share documents. It turns out that the default iOS behavior does two different things depending on which steps you follow. .JPG file.
A) You start from the native iOS photo app, select a photo, use the Share option, then choose OD app -- it will upload as
B) You are in the OD app, select the Upload option, choose your iOS photo library, then
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I don't pay anyone but my ISP for my internet. I use OSS and have over 35TB of storage available using equipment and drives that others discarded. It's available from anywhere that has an Internet connection. Granted you need a a bit of knowledge to set it up.
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I paid $200 for 2 x 8TB Raid 1 storage where I download all my Android photos and delete them from google's cloud. I own the disks you see. I like that. No risk of google going full evil on me and arbitrarily locking out my account for no reason. Which does happen.
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"news" (Score:3)
Not a great deal? (Score:2)
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Breakeven for owning your own raided disks is 5 months for Google, 9 months for Mega. That is, if you already own a PC to plug them into. Also, you get more when you own your own disks. Back up your home directory to raided disk, it's trivial.
Never heard of it (Score:5, Insightful)
Didn't even know it existed, not that it's anything I would need or want.
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Don't worry. By the time you think you might have use for it they'll be shutting it down.
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Google One is the only way to get more storage for your Google account now. It's not actually terribly priced I suppose. 2TB for £80/year is not as cheap as Jottacloud, but it's also better than Jottacloud for things like photo management and having Google Drive mountable on your computer.
As ever they bundle in a load of crap you don't want, and which will probably be killed off at some point.
If they did say 10TB and basic ad-free YouTube £100/year or something, I'd be quite interest
Re:Never heard of it (Score:5, Informative)
I'll take the heat here and defend Google One, I've had the 200GB plan for 6 years now and before that for another 4ish years when it was still just Google Drive.
It's been absolutely just fine, the price is fair, the desktop sync has always worked great, file sharing is easy, photo sharing and backups work great.
I am playing Anecdote Andy here with my sample size of one but a cloud file sync has been something I wouldn't give up in my workflow and Google introduced that to me and has provided over a decade of problem free service.
I don't imagine they would cancel essentially the prime subscription component of their entire ecosystem and they have not given me any reason to trust them less than any of the other giant providers or even a small provider.
"Past performance is no prediction of future results" for sure but I don't think this Google service is in any way egregiously worse than similar options.
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I have an old Google account that got 55GB of free space with all the offers back in the day. I do like the service, the issue is that for me 200GB or even 2TB isn't all that helpful.
On my most recent holiday I took over 1TB of photos and videos. Automatic backup is great, but even with reduced quality I would have filled a 2TB account long ago. What I do is copy the photos and smaller videos to add old Pixel XL that has unlimited photo storage. A full Takeout is over 9TB now!
On top of that, YouTube offers
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I can't relate to that, my Google Photo has daily use going back to 2011 and my photo storage is only at 36GB currently and Google does offer at least for me up to 30TB
For me personally if I was shooting 1TB per trip I would definitely consider a "Professional" photo storage product. Used to use Flickr back in the day, I think they are still around, my old company had nearly 30TB when I left and they were still paying like less than $50 per year.
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It looks like tiers higher than 2TB are not available to everyone. They are geo-locked AND only available as an upgrade after you already pay for one of the other plans. Also, 30TB is â150/month!
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To be fair to Google, they are one of the best for giving advance notice that services are going away, and making it easy to export your data from them.
The main risk is getting your account banned for some reason, because there is no way to contact anyone or sort it out. For that reason I backup the whole account every night.
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"Google account"? What is that? Don't think I need it.
Big News: "additional customer support" (Score:3)
Some of us are under the impression that Google doesn't offer customer support for anything unless the subscriber is spending big bucks...
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Some of us are under the impression that Google doesn't offer customer support for anything
FTFY
Google should pay you (Score:2)
I figure they spy on how I use their Photo Editor and then incorporate features based on my use for their paying customers. (I am a professional photographer)
If you upload all your photos to their cloud services, that allows them to train AI off your photos, mine your photos for location and friend data, etc. No thanks, I'll back up my photos to my computer myself.
No ARM support (Score:1)
WTF is "Google One"? (Score:1)
Never heard about it. Maybe related to me not trusting them one bit for anything. Also, I have really low FOMO.
Lots of options (Score:2)
Amazon Photos is a good deal and it comes with Prime. They give you unlimited, uncompressed photo storage and their app is pretty decent. It's nice because your photos aren't resized, but remain easily accessible. You have to pay extra for video storage, though.
I don't think anyone makes money from these things, but I'm sure the storage is dirt cheap for them since they own the underlying cloud platform. It's still not a real backup, though.