Guys, following my yesterday's post you know why I am a little bit concerned about Google?
Philosophers tell us not to trust/believe/etc anyone who has ever deceived/changed rules in the middle of the game/etc us before!
How reliable is Google now and in future? I mean consistency and trust(for a job to be done) which are key elements in business.
I bought 3TB Toshiba external hard drive yesterday and started downloading my stuff from G drive .
I trust Google as much as I trust any tech company: as much as I have to. And I count on them, like any tech company, to eventually dump products that aren't working for their business. Doesn't mean they'll dump all products, just that success and long-term existence aren't things one can count on. They never really were, they're even less so now in an age where the King of 5-Years Ago in tech can be the Pauper of Today.
ReplyDeleteI tried for years to keep all my stuff backed up on drives and disks and such, always lost files over time. Never have since switching to Drive. So on that, I trust Googs even more than myself.
Eli Fennell Oh ok. Your message gives a sigh of relief .
ReplyDeleteI do get what people are feeling right nos., Stephen Adu Agyei. Googs has had a bad streak. Not a totally bad streak. I mean, Pixel is now the fastest growing smartphone brand, Assistant is catching up to Alexa on non-smartphone devices for market share, and Chrome OS is becoming quite the viable PC platform. But, they've shut a lot of stuff lately, mostly stuff from the pre-Pichai days. Satya Nadella had to shutter a lot of stuff from the Ballmer days at Microsoft. Big new CEO transitions lead to such things, as the new guy seeks to underburden himself of whatever the last guy left him. Way I hear it, Larry Page checked out from the day to day operations as some point so he left a bit of a mess of Big Expensive Ideas. Pichai is better at executing... the dude singlehandedly made Chromebooks a thing with his Ed Tech approach to selling them.
ReplyDeleteThink about it: nearly every shutdown recently was from when Page was still CEO. And then only the stuff that wasn't hugely popular.
Eli Fennell what's your take on "Keep"?
ReplyDeleteI use it extensively. "Released: March 20, 2013; 6 years ago"
Mark Barrus I used to be skeptical of it. I thought it was too late to the market against established competitors. But it seems like
ReplyDeleteA) Preinstalling it in Android, and integrating it in various ways with their ecosystem, have worked. It became popular
B) I think Google is committed, insofar as they would only get rid of it by moving it into some replacement, because they know that it's an adjacent market for some of their core efforts. Like, you don't want a Google Docs competitor emerging out of a Note Keeping app, which is the sort of thing that can happen. Basically, they have to have it, no matter what. Even if it were far from the most popular, their users want it as a feature.
Eli Fennell thank you. Sigh of relief, and since it's also an add-on to Gmail, and integrated with Calendar, that's a Plus.
ReplyDeleteMark Barrus As I discovered at the last Google Product Experts Summit, the Drive team are responsible for Keep, and despite the fact that it's not obvious that it is, that fact probably helps its longevity.
ReplyDeleteKeep recently had some updates at least.
ReplyDeleteAs for combatting bitrot, I should have a look at the zfs filesystem; heard good things about zfs. Maybe run a NAS or single board computer with an external harddrive with it.
If you're interested in ZFS, check out FreeBSD and its native implementation of ZFS. Later today I can provide a link to a pretty cool guide regarding it. I run several ZFS based personal systems 😄 and love them!
ReplyDeleteblog.briancmoses.com - DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2016
ReplyDeleteTook me a while to dig it up, but check out Brian's notes on configuring different ZFS systems, it's a great resource!