{"id":21512,"date":"2018-05-14T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21512"},"modified":"2018-05-15T15:19:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T19:19:53","slug":"google-is-rebranding-storage-plans-as-google-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/14\/google-is-rebranding-storage-plans-as-google-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Is Rebranding Storage Plans As “Google One”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frederic Lardinois<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Google is revamping<\/a> its consumer storage plans<\/a> today by adding a new $2.99\/month tier for 200 GB of storage and dropping the price of its 2 TB plan from $19.99\/month to $9.99\/month (and dropping the $9.99\/month 1 TB plan). It’s also rebranding these storage plans (but not Google Drive itself) as “Google One<\/a>.”<\/p>

Going forward, you’ll also be able to share your storage quota with up to five family members<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

That access to live experts — not some barely functional AI chatbot — comes with every Google One plan, including the $1.99\/month 100 GB plan.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

It’s worth stressing that the existing free quota of 15 GB will remain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

ianstormtaylor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I think this article is missing the bigger picture—this isn’t about storage. This is Google trying to copy the success of Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

They’re going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription. The storage plans and priority support are just the first benefit they’ve tied to the subscription.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Previously: The Missing iCloud Storage Bump<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-05-15): John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

So Google is now ahead on the free and $1\/month tiers — but not by much — and is only matching Apple at the other tiers. I would think Google would want to kick Apple’s ass here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frederic Lardinois (Hacker News): Google is revamping its consumer storage plans today by adding a new $2.99\/month tier for 200 GB of storage and dropping the price of its 2 TB plan from $19.99\/month to $9.99\/month (and dropping the $9.99\/month 1 TB plan). It’s also rebranding these storage plans (but not Google Drive itself) as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-05-15T19:19:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"7411addb-3256-460f-b8da-ba7f641299dc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-05-15T19:19:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdBGt2zJWRg-42rp_ZBKZ3A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1447,101,51,1432,1671,96],"class_list":["post-21512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon-prime","tag-business","tag-google","tag-google-drive","tag-google-one","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21524,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512\/revisions\/21524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}