Previously worked at Google in infrastructure but opinions are my own.
I am always frustrated/embarrassed at Google’s messaging of these things, but it seems to me like this tweet is trying to stir the pot for attention. The Pixel phone with unlimited uploads marketed at consumers is one thing, but this unlimited plan for universities assuredly contained terms that didn’t guarantee it forever and a large institution should be aware of that. I also don’t think unlimited is a synonym for eternally unlimited.
It also seems like it would be a bad idea to store frequently accessed experimental data in Google Drive and based on follow up tweets the professor agrees and doesn’t use Google Drive for this… so it seems like they are mad about a hypothetical.
I don’t think Google is always the most thoughtful with things like this but this seems like something to take up with their IT department and not a second Google Reader incident.
I am always frustrated/embarrassed at Google’s messaging of these things, but it seems to me like this tweet is trying to stir the pot for attention. The Pixel phone with unlimited uploads marketed at consumers is one thing, but this unlimited plan for universities assuredly contained terms that didn’t guarantee it forever and a large institution should be aware of that. I also don’t think unlimited is a synonym for eternally unlimited.
It also seems like it would be a bad idea to store frequently accessed experimental data in Google Drive and based on follow up tweets the professor agrees and doesn’t use Google Drive for this… so it seems like they are mad about a hypothetical.
I don’t think Google is always the most thoughtful with things like this but this seems like something to take up with their IT department and not a second Google Reader incident.