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Pretty freaking awesome especially if you already have an amazon account. Important to first enable it thru your account and then install or update the app on your phone
http://www.androidcentral.com/amazo...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)
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Also if you purchase 1 mp3 album from them they will automatically upgrade your 5GB to 20GB for free for one year. And songs purchased from them don't count towards your data allotment. I bought an album that was 3.99 and got upgraded instantly.
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As usual Australia gets shafted
im all over this. thanks for the heads up
Yeah this could be pretty cool. I love Pandora, but there are plenty of times I want to control what I listen to. I can fit an "ok" amount of music in the 5GB. Pretty good idea to buy an album for the 20GB. Still will not come close to holding all of my music, but good enough for the road.
I think I'll stick with serving up my own collection with Audio Galaxy. Good find on the one year 20G deal, though.
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Not Only Australia mate
Thanks for the heads up. 20gb, nice!
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so after I opened up amazon mp3 and looked at the top albums, I noticed there was a cheap one for some glee song, I figured I get it to see it if it would give me the 20gbs. so I picked one my wife would like, and for a $1.39 or whatever it cost for the 1 song album I got the 20gb drive.
yeah I bought the top selling .69 song and got the one year free trial too
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I think I'll stick with serving up my own collection with Audio Galaxy. Good find on the one year 20G deal, though.
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+1 for AudioGalaxy, my (relatively small) music collection is 12 GB, so it won't fit on Amazon's 5 GB free solution. But, there is no need for Amazon Cloud - with AG, I can stream my entire music collection from my computer to any other computer, my phone, my G-Tab, etc. Without having to upload it all to a server. For free! AG rules!
Got this couple of days ago and am loving it
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+1 for AudioGalaxy, my (relatively small) music collection is 12 GB, so it won't fit on Amazon's 5 GB free solution. But, there is no need for Amazon Cloud - with AG, I can stream my entire music collection from my computer to any other computer, my phone, my G-Tab, etc. Without having to upload it all to a server. For free! AG rules!
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But does that mean you have to leave your computer on all the time to use AudioGalaxy?
I'm mainly thinking when I'm traveling this would be good. But then again, why wouldn't I just have an mp3 player with me? I'm mainly thinking of using this as storage ala drop box. Just one more place to store stuff. And maybe my "emergency" playlist.
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But does that mean you have to leave your computer on all the time to use AudioGalaxy?
I'm mainly thinking when I'm traveling this would be good. But then again, why wouldn't I just have an mp3 player with me? I'm mainly thinking of using this as storage ala drop box. Just one more place to store stuff. And maybe my "emergency" playlist.
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Yeah the computer has to be on, that's true, but I leave it on all the time anyway.
Be very careful WHICH mp3 files you upload to this service.
By using it, you have agreed to allow Amazon to inspect, analyze and report to the authorities what music you have.
In other words, unless you bought the music from Amazon, be prepared to prove you own it. In court possibly. That would be federal court, btw.
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Be very careful WHICH mp3 files you upload to this service.
By using it, you have agreed to allow Amazon to inspect, analyze and report to the authorities what music you have.
In other words, unless you bought the music from Amazon, be prepared to prove you own it. In court possibly. That would be federal court, btw.
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Are you just speculating or have you actually heard of someone getting tagged?
yeah they need to inspect it to be able to add the tags and cd cover for the player.
Article here: http://www.callofdutymappacks.com/news/the-price-is-right/ We have just gotten to the stage (or more xbox 360 uses have) where if they purchased all map packs, you'd have spent more money on the map packs than the game itself for Black Ops. Have a read! What do you think, is it too much?
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Article here: http://www.callofdutymappacks.com/news/the-price-is-right/ We have just gotten to the stage (or more xbox 360 uses have) where if they purchased all map packs, you'd have spent more money on the map packs than the game itself for Black Ops. Have a read! What do you think, is it too much?
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I hadn't played Black Ops for a loooooooooooong time, and started playing again last weekend. I knew there had been map packs, but hadn't paid any attention to them, but when I had a look I was shocked at the price. I think they're WAY too pricey. I got the game for about £35, so it was relatively cheap for release day, but all the maps will total near on £33, so yeah. It's like buying another game!
I'm not buying them - simple as that. They'll drop the price and sell them as a bundle at some point, probably for about £20. I'll wait for that. Besides, I'm a noob all over again and I'm getting slaughtered! I need to learn to play it again before learning to play new maps
Definitely way over priced.
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I haven't bought any of them and don't plan to. The new COD will be out soon enough. Also the new pack that just came out is only zombies.
I never bought them. Higher priories then map packs
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If your an avid COD player you will end up drinking the Cool-Aid just to be able to stay in the game. If you don't purchase them - you will end up being in less and less lobbies.
Its extortion sure - but I like the new maps. I do wish they were $9.99 instead of the $15.99 - or get at least more content for the price.
And.. by the time they introduce lower pricing the community will have moved on to the next installation of COD: Steal Your Soul edition leaving the old ones in the dust.
I try not to think about the money... the movies nowadays are $9.99 a ticket, a Blue Ray is $24.99, and even a new hardcover book is more expensive.
For me its a decent price vs. value thing.
Im just waiting for my maps to download, i wasnt going to download them but all my mates have who play online. Yea they cost way to much, it should be a one of price for all downloadable content.
Once MW3 comes out they should drop to an almost reasonable price but who will be playing at that time?
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Just hit the UK and Europe and it's pretty awesome, it has a lot of offer and since I usually illegally download my music, I no longer have to (I refuse to use iTunes, I know there are alternatives). This is great news and its about time too. What do my fellow Europeans think? Pricing is also more competitive than I imagined. Good job Google :good:
Note you can't buy anything yet but you can browse and see the pricing.
One other awesome thing to know, the Music Manager is now available on Linux!
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ive had google music for a while now and like the fact i can leave all my music in the cloud and not clog up my n7:good:
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ive had google music for a while now and like the fact i can leave all my music in the cloud and not clog up my n7:good:
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I've been using it for a while, just hadn't had the ability to browse the store and buy stuff.
Single tracks look a bit expensive compared to the cost of the full album but I like the look of the album prices.
Similar artists had some weird suggestions, I eventually had it giving g Mark Owen>Debbie Harry>Victoria Beckham. Still a nice feature even if it did recommend Victoria Beckham.
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Single tracks look a bit expensive compared to the cost of the full album but I like the look of the album prices.
Similar artists had some weird suggestions, I eventually had it giving g Mark Owen>Debbie Harry>Victoria Beckham. Still a nice feature even if it did recommend Victoria Beckham.
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I've been comparing Play Music to iTunes and Googles offering is much cheaper.
Single tracks on both iTunes and Play Music average at about £0.79 to £0.99 with the occasional iTunes song dipping to to £0.59 and peaking at £1.89. This is from what I've seen so far. Play Music is a lot more consistent.
Albums seem to be cheaper on Google Play, most of the albums I have checked seem to be about £1 to £2 cheaper. That's a huge saving if you by a lot of music. I anticipate to spend at least a hundred quid over the next week, buying all the music I pirated.
Wasn't play music supposed to release in Canada as well as Europe?
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Google said Canada and Australia are coming later this year or early 2013.
I like it. Prices are ok, and encourage album sales, and play store is nice to browse.
Was expecting it it be 'meh'. May have to get Floyd dsom first as is just rude to buy anything else before it.
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Have you compared to Amazon MP3? For the sort of music I buy amazon is consistently cheaper and offers the same cloud playback functionality and tune matching (although you have to pay £20 a year for a lot of tune matching).
Another potential benefit of buying from Amazon is you can download the tracks, then upload them to Google Music and enjoy the (more reliable) cloud streaming
Yay finally they release it to the UK.
With regards to your Amazon questions, Amazon sells tracks cheaper however buying the whole album is usually about £0.50 - £1.00 cheaper from Play Music.
I think it does depend on the sort of thing you buy, every album I looked at was cheaper on amazon also but I guess we might have different tastes!
Worth shopping around either way, they both support matching music so can just upload to your cloud streamer of choice.
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I think it does depend on the sort of thing you buy, every album I looked at was cheaper on amazon also but I guess we might have different tastes!
Worth shopping around either way, they both support matching music so can just upload to your cloud streamer of choice.
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Yes and I think a price matching script would be in order from someone.
I have a problem with the new UK service, suspect its down to my account being previously activating via proxy to allow me to access my music account and upload music for streaming some months before the service went live here in the UK. I cannot now purchase anything from the site, it takes me from the UK site in £GBP to the US site to complete the transaction in US$ and then won't accept my UK credit card or UK activated Google Wallet balance.
I've contacted Google support and their answer today is that "I must be a US customer to buy music..." clearly the support agent doesn't know his arse from his elbow
Anyone else got this issue and worked out how to solve it? I've got over 5000 tracks uploaded and so would not want to lose them if I had to create a new account.
Would also add... I'm not getting the 'music match' service... music is still being uploaded track by track (music manager version 1.0.51.1573)... only 17k tracks to go to my limit!!
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Google Music Explorer is simply amazing, and a game changer. Apple fanboys look on in disappointment when I showed them it at work...
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I cannot now purchase anything from the site, it takes me from the UK site in £GBP to the US site to complete the transaction in US$ and then won't accept my UK credit card or UK activated Google Wallet balance.
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OK so I fixed this - turns out my US credit card had been changed to default somehow?
Still not seeing the 'Music Match' service - has anyone got this working?
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Been looking for that.. a lot of the mp3s I have are a bit ropey and music match is ideal for sprucing them up. I can only find the standard upload service.
Is anyone else having issues launching the Music Manager app on OSX? It doesn't do anything...
South America??
When i got my galaxy s2 i was given 50GB of dropbox which made me happy, when I upgraded to an s4 i was pleased because the the 50GB was renewed. I heard the Note 4 contined the deal but was dismayed to realise the deal was now only applicable to new customers!
I partly stuck with Samsung due to this and am shocked to be left with an email saying that in 2 months i will have to drop 9GB of data to be able to keep any more.
Dropbox only offer 1TB, i dont need that much. 50GB was fine and i like Dropbox a lot. However i have 1TB 'sky'/'one' drive with Microsoft I'll have to get used to now.
I'm upset with both Samsungs & Dropbox over this... i assumed sticking with Samsung meant good cloud provision!
Same here....
I was hoping for the same thing. Dropbox gave me 3 more free GBs. Looks like it's time to join sky. Was fun while it lasted.
I was also faced with the same problem. However, instead of signing in, I signed up again with a new account and got the free 50GB (after doing a few introductory steps). Then I went to my computer, copied the old dropbox directory to the desktop, then uninstalled dropbox, and reinstalled with the new credentials. I then placed the contents of the old dropbox directory into the new one. It took me 10 hours to re-upload the 38GB I had in dropbox. I then deactivated my old dropbox account entirely (just so I can do this again when the Note 5 comes out )
You can also easily add another 18GB by doing some silly referrals. Or you can go buy these referrals from eBay for $5 for the 18GB.
Just wanted to add that if I had to pay, it would definitely be for Sky-one-drive. The 1TB option with them costs $69/year (vs $100 for dropbox) and for that you get the same 1TB as dropbox, plus office365 for a year, plus 60 free world minutes on skype per month. That's so much better than dropbox, I can't imagine how they are not trying to compete harder.
I'd become rather fond of old Dropbox over the years but fortunately I have 1TB of Sky/Onedrive with my M$ Office subscription so will start using that more. It will probably be more convenient anyway.
I hope this thread helps others realise they should set up a new Dropbox account rather than reactivate a previous one.. the warnings are there but i thought it would be okay.
I do not understand why Dropbox don't have a cheaper 50 or 100GB option? Im not a heavy cloud user despite using it for all pictures & work related stuff but i can't justify the monthly cost of 1TB of storage with them when Google only charge a couple of quid.
Well done Dropbox you've lost a lot of potential custom, thank you and goodbye.
Oh we all know we can setup a new one. The problem is the hassel in doing so. I might as well make the switch if I'm starting over again.
At least Dropbox finally lowered their price. Not to long ago they were charging a lot for data. But as others said where is my 100 GB option option?
Make a new dropbox account with different email. Got to pc. Log out the old one and log in the new one. It will create a new dropbox folder. Then go to the old dropbox folder and copy everything to the new folder. This is how I get back my 50gb storage
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I've moved almost everything to my OneDrive now except the camera upload.. Microsoft have made a meal of the feature by forcing notifications on me when it pauses automatic uploads when not on wifi. Do not like!
I'm sticking with Dropbox for camera uploads as I will still have 10GB with them after they downgrade me. I'm not interested in Dropbox now they've busted the renewal relationship with Samsung.
I don't know why dropbox/samsung did this "new customers only" BS.... I got a free year with Evernote through Samsung's Note 4 promo, even though I already have a premium account with them.
I was too annoyed by this, however I went to Google Drive and upgraded to 100GB package which only costs $1.99 a month, so less than $24 a year for 100GB, seems like the best deal out there.
See here http://gavinsgadgets.wordpress.com/...x-bonus-space-on-samsung-galaxy-s5-no-chance/
This was situation with S5. Lots of people added their views too on thread.
Wow I didn't know that.. my other half had the s5 when it came out and got the free space. As I said in the OP I first got my space with my Galaxy s2 and it was renewed with the Galaxy s4, of course I assumed this tradition would continue.
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Oh we all know we can setup a new one. The problem is the hassel in doing so. I might as well make the switch if I'm starting over again.
At least Dropbox finally lowered their price. Not to long ago they were charging a lot for data. But as others said where is my 100 GB option option?
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I have the same nightmare of 2 year end date. I have just used the pay monthly option to give me time to look for alternatives like Box
Try 3rd party storage
try Yunio... gives double for lifetime n keeps adding more
Anyone else feel it's a deal breaker? 64gb without unlimited original quality backup is rediculous and contradictory to their previous reasons for such small storage in the base model.
Maybe we can get them to reconsider:
https://www.change.org/p/google-bri...y-photo-storage-to-google-pixel-4?signed=true
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Yeah, I gotta say, that's a pretty crappy thing for google to do. Forcing people to now use a purchased plan(like everybody else) to store your original quality pics. I will defend google over most other OEM's any day of the week, but this is pretty hard to swallow. I don't even use it, but it's still a shady practice
At first I wasn't happy with them removing unlimited original quality. After thinking about it, they are a for profit company after all and they want more people to get into their One Drive subscriptions. I've actually had their 100GB for $20/year (Which isn't that's much at all) and am only using only 13.24GB of it. I still have 90.76GB to spare. Who know how long or short that's going to last me. I take mostly pictures and only 30-60 second video shots once in a while. And in comparison, who else is even offer unlimited high quality backups of photos and videos? That alone is pretty generous in of itself. If anything,Google was spoiling us the last 3 Pixels.
Also, iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max 64 GB models are $999 and $1099 respectively and offer no free unlimited backup. Yes I know they have a handful of features Pixels don't, but just saying.
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At first I wasn't happy with them removing unlimited original quality. After thinking about it, they are a for profit company after all and they want more people to get into their One Drive subscriptions. I've actually had their 100GB for $20/year (Which isn't that's much at all) and am only using only 13.24GB of it. I still have 90.76GB to spare. Who know how long or short that's going to last me. I take mostly pictures and only 30-60 second video shots once in a while. And in comparison, who else is even offer unlimited high quality backups of photos and videos? That alone is pretty generous in of itself. If anything,Google was spoiling us the last 3 Pixels.
Also, iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max 64 GB models are $999 and $1099 respectively and offer no free unlimited backup. Yes I know they have a handful of features Pixels don't, but just saying.
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iPhone users get full original picture backup on Google Photos for free though. Can't post links yet but you can check on reddit by searching "iPhone users get full original picture backup on Google Photos for free due to iOS HEIC encoding being smaller than Google compressed images so no need to compress further"
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iPhone users get full original picture backup on Google Photos for free though. Can't post links yet but you can check on reddit by searching "iPhone users get full original picture backup on Google Photos for free due to iOS HEIC encoding being smaller than Google compressed images so no need to compress further"
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That's true and actually any Android phone gets unlimited high quality backups. But all my non-techy friends who have iPhones really don't use Google Photos. They're so tied to Apple's ecosystem and pay iCloud or just full up their free space. If anything, they could've made that feature Pixel only and really piss people off. LOL. For real, I don't disagree though that it was a big differentiating feature of Pixel phones.
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Anyone else feel it's a deal breaker? 64gb without unlimited original quality backup is rediculous and contradictory to their previous reasons for such small storage in the base model.
Maybe we can get them to reconsider:
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It's not a deal breaker at all. Let me tell you why.....1. nothing will stay free forever. Name another company that gives you free unlimited storage full size including 4k video and 2. This is a good one....I've been a Google one subscriber for a couple years now and guess how much I've paid out of pocket....$0! Simply because they give you the Google rewards app to answer silly surveys and pay you for it. Guess where all my earnings go...towards my google subscription. I currently have $16 in rewards and as they take payments I get enough surveys that builds my money back up. So in essence, it's still free.
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It's not a deal breaker at all. Let me tell you why.....1. nothing will stay free forever. Name another company that gives you free unlimited storage full size including 4k video and 2. This is a good one....I've been a Google one subscriber for a couple years now and guess how much I've paid out of pocket....$0! Simply because they give you the Google rewards app to answer silly surveys and pay you for it. Guess where all my earnings go...towards my google subscription. I currently have $16 in rewards and as they take payments I get enough surveys that builds my money back up. So in essence, it's still free.
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That's an excellent idea, I didn't even think of that
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That's an excellent idea, I didn't even think of that
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You're welcome lol
I use Google Rewards for the occasional app subscription or Google Play Movies rental. [emoji1]
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It's not a deal breaker at all. Let me tell you why.....1. nothing will stay free forever. Name another company that gives you free unlimited storage full size including 4k video and 2. This is a good one....I've been a Google one subscriber for a couple years now and guess how much I've paid out of pocket....$0! Simply because they give you the Google rewards app to answer silly surveys and pay you for it. Guess where all my earnings go...towards my google subscription. I currently have $16 in rewards and as they take payments I get enough surveys that builds my money back up. So in essence, it's still free.
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Hooooooooooly sh.. I never thought of that! I'm tossing between the Pixel 4 XL and the OP7 Pro, but realising this, I'm reconsidering my decision on the OP7 Pro.
Might get my mate who works at JB Hi-fi to set aside the orange model. Also, wireless charging HYPE!
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Hooooooooooly sh.. I never thought of that! I'm tossing between the Pixel 4 XL and the OP7 Pro, but realising this, I'm reconsidering my decision on the OP7 Pro.
Might get my mate who works at JB Hi-fi to set aside the orange model. Also, wireless charging HYPE!
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I just did the math on my rewards and it's $30.78 per/year since November 2013 for me. That's good enough for the $30/year for 200GB.
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I just did the math on my rewards and it's $30.78 per/year since November 2013 for me. That's good enough for the $30/year for 200GB.
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Lol nailed it. I've even bought stuff in between with my earnings and still haven't paid out of pocket. It's a no brainer man.
I guess Google doesn't like me, it says no survey at this time ?
Keep in mind also, Google One subs also receive other benefits as well. I have received a free home mini, got $200 off my 3 XL, a $5 credit on the play store. I was on a 1TB Drive sub, they doubled my storage to 2 TB for the same price when One was released.
Currently you get 10% store credit on Google store purchases. They have a deal for up to 40% off on hotels. They add new deals now and then.
In total I get $200 store credit for ordering the 4 XL.
I understand not everyone would like/use Google store credit, but it does offset the cost of doing business with Google if you take advantage.
And yes, Google rewards is also a great way to get 'free' stuff from them, I currently am at $124.30 lifetime in rewards from them.
If you wanna get real crazy, look up Google user research and join that, they have paid up to $100 an hour (that I have seen) for participation.
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Keep in mind also, Google One subs also receive other benefits as well. I have received a free home mini, got $200 off my 3 XL, a $5 credit on the play store. I was on a 1TB Drive sub, they doubled my storage to 2 TB for the same price when One was released.
Currently you get 10% store credit on Google store purchases. They have a deal for up to 40% off on hotels. They add new deals now and then.
In total I get $200 store credit for ordering the 4 XL.
I understand not everyone would like/use Google store credit, but it does offset the cost of doing business with Google if you take advantage.
And yes, Google rewards is also a great way to get 'free' stuff from them, I currently am at $124.30 lifetime in rewards from them.
If you wanna get real crazy, look up Google user research and join that, they have paid up to $100 (that I have seen) for participation.
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See, this is the stuff people don't talk about. Instead they just bash on Google for taking away free unlimited storage at full size....amongst other things that are business decisions.
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See, this is the stuff people don't talk about. Instead they just bash on Google for taking away free unlimited storage at full size....amongst other things that are business decisions.
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I get the backlash, the reality of todays world is people want free stuff. Who wouldn't? I love free stuff as much as the next, but the reality is, it isn't really free, somewhere along the line, someone is paying for it.
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I get the backlash, the reality of todays world is people want free stuff. Who wouldn't? I love free stuff as much as the next, but the reality is, it isn't really free, somewhere along the line, someone is paying for it.
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Exactly. I get it. It's just really sad it's like this. I mean they just talk about Google taking away free storage...but not one article seems to mention hey, you want free? Just use Google rewards and they pay you which in turn can go towards a Google one subscription. Just the hate on them is sick. Oh well I guess.
First off, Google Surveys is the sheeeeet! I've made $70+ with it, and I only signed up this year. I've used it on a lot of paid apps that are awesome. I guess the storage is a good thing to use it for now. No biggie there I guess. It balances out.
Also, I'm a cloud architect, and storage is still VERY expensive. Google likely uses SSD's for there photos backups for quick retrieval too, not to mention a very high speed network between their data centers. Those things are EXPENSIVE. And full 4k video, plus 1080p photos from millions of users? Just imagine how much that costs Google. This simply could not last forever. I don't like this either, but I'll just pay the $1.99 or $2.99 per month with my surveys money. No loss.
Also, consider that Apple doesn't do this for free. I doubt Samsung does either. So, making this a huge deal is pretty bratty IMO.
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I guess Google doesn't like me, it says no survey at this time
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They don't just popup when you first open it. 90% of the surveys are for places you've been (or it thinks you've been, think nearby stuff), the rest are YouTube, YouTube music stuff and some random other things. Once you start going places you'll start getting them. I typically get one for YouTube whatever after anytime I use my Nest Hub to stream music from YTM. Those are like 50-75 cents per. The others expect 10 cents to 50 cents per.
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First off, Google Surveys is the sheeeeet! I've made $70+ with it, and I only signed up this year. I've used it on a lot of paid apps that are awesome. I guess the storage is a good thing to use it for now. No biggie there I guess. It balances out.
Also, I'm a cloud architect, and storage is still VERY expensive. Google likely uses SSD's for there photos backups for quick retrieval too, not to mention a very high speed network between their data centers. Those things are EXPENSIVE. And full 4k video, plus 1080p photos from millions of users? Just imagine how much that costs Google. This simply could not last forever. I don't like this either, but I'll just pay the $1.99 or $2.99 per month with my surveys money. No loss.
Also, consider that Apple doesn't do this for free. I doubt Samsung does either. So, making this a huge deal is pretty bratty IMO.
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They don't just popup when you first open it. 90% of the surveys are for places you've been (or it thinks you've been, think nearby stuff), the rest are YouTube, YouTube music stuff and some random other things. Once you start going places you'll start getting them. I typically get one for YouTube whatever after anytime I use my Nest Hub to stream music from YTM. Those are like 50-75 cents per. The others expect 10 cents to 50 cents per.
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right on, I appreciate the input. Would have thanked the post, but apparently I've reached my quota for the day. WTF
Just did my first survey. .20 cents, but it was free and I am sure it adds up quick. Thanks for the tip, guys ??