I don’t see Google raising that storage limit anytime soon. They’ve spent the past 2 years years trying to get rid of storage requirements on their end. They combined drive, email, and photo storage in the same storage limit. They’re about to start trimming inactive Google accounts. The plan here is to push people into the higher 1TB plan which might be more profitable for them. I’m amazed the price for the plans have held steady. I’d expect a price increase from either Google or OneDrive.
Not to mention ending the lifetime free uploads to Photos from Pixel phones
It’s still honored for phones that had it, but phones after the Pixel 4a don’t get the free storage option.
No company will. Apple is the same. 5GB base. But for just $1, you get 50!
It’s a nice bit of reoccurring revenue for big tech right now. No one is getting rid of it. Not in this economic climate.
I bought the 2TB package because my wife needs the extra features for her side-business/hobby, like the appointment slots, no time-limit on Google Meet, etc.
And since we already use Google for most of our stuff it was the rational choice.
Exactly, I had GSuite and purchased 1tb storage for Drive. Now I’ve been moved to Workspace and they’ve cut each user down to 30gb (I’m the only user) and my Drive space doesn’t count for any of it. Drive says I have 1tb but Workspace Admin says my user is 300% over the limit.
Google themselves told me I need to purchase more storage (or up the number of users) and try and get a refund on the 1tb storage. Bizarre.
Google has probably forgotten Google One even exists, and once they realize it’s still active they’ll cancel it.
It’s mostly additional capacity for your Google cloud storage. It also includes a VPN and a couple of premium Google Photos features like magic eraser.
It was literally the first result on google searching for “google one”
They’ve actually been ramping up efforts to get people to pay for storage lately. I’ve always been fairly close to full, but lately they’ve started popping up brightly-colored warnings on various interfaces telling me to buy more space.
I did the opposite and got down to like 80% full, and the warnings are still there!
This is a far cry from the original statement that I’d never run out of email storage. (Yes, I use it for other things, too, but I’ve found myself having to delete emails with attachments to keep storage requirements down.
“Master, may I please have more”
They won’t give it to you. If you need it, you will buy the higher tier. What’s their incentive to give you more storage? That helps them how?
I cancelled my storage subscription with google in the past year, partially to degoogle my life, but also because in all those years they kept the price the same for the same amount of storage. It’s not like it was that much, 20€ for 100GB/year, but I have MS O365 family plan which gives me 1TB per account, so no real point in staying.
At one point I will have to demicrosoft I suppose, but I:m not in a rush. At least MS doesn’t convert my pictures to shitty quality.
I’m close to doing the same. Mostly because of how poorly they handled Google Play Credit cards being hung up in their automated system and basically stiffing me for them. They can’t be returned to the store despite Google insisting they can be. I gave up after 13 attempts…
Being more than a Google Drive and YouTube customer I have other Google services I’m not sure it’s worth the effort anymore. This is after years of paying monthly fees all because I can’t find a human at google to resolve a google play gift card issue on their end. I hope California takes them to the cleaners in the class action over the millions in Google Play they are holding.
It’s free money for them as there is no way for many users to redeem or refund these cards bought in grocery stores, online, and/or big box stores. This is the part where I think they have slided into the evil part the early version of them were concerned about.
