Comments on: Google pushing Google+ and Gmail on new sign-ups http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bob http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-175211 Bob Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:01:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-175211 Its being force fed to unwilling gmail signer upers .. that’s wrong! Just when you thought Google was cool, they get sucked into being ‘one of them’ … I don’t see the point of having G+ .. perhaps am not the sharing kinds ;-)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-175150 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:23:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-175150 You and… well, just you. Lots of my friends tried Google+ when it first came out. None of them use it anymore.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-175151 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:23:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-175151 You and… well, just you. Lots of my friends tried Google+ when it first came out. None of them use it anymore.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-175146 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-175146 You’re completely missing the point. Signing up for a Windows Live account doesn’t mean Microsoft is automatically counting you as a user of Xbox Live, Office Web Apps, Hotmail, etc. Each of those services are considered separate entities, but you can use a single Windows Live account to connect to all of them if you wish.

What Google is doing here is trying to artificially pad their Google+ membership numbers by counting anyone who signs up for a single Google service as a member of EVERY Google service. That’s definitely a little shady.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-175147 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-175147 You’re completely missing the point. Signing up for a Windows Live account doesn’t mean Microsoft is automatically counting you as a user of Xbox Live, Office Web Apps, Hotmail, etc. Each of those services are considered separate entities, but you can use a single Windows Live account to connect to all of them if you wish.

What Google is doing here is trying to artificially pad their Google+ membership numbers by counting anyone who signs up for a single Google service as a member of EVERY Google service. That’s definitely a little shady.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-175148 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-175148 You’re completely missing the point. Signing up for a Windows Live account doesn’t mean Microsoft is automatically counting you as a user of Xbox Live, Office Web Apps, Hotmail, etc. Each of those services are considered separate entities, but you can use a single Windows Live account to connect to all of them if you wish.

What Google is doing here is trying to artificially pad their Google+ membership numbers by counting anyone who signs up for a single Google service as a member of EVERY Google service. That’s definitely a little shady.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-175149 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-175149 You’re completely missing the point. Signing up for a Windows Live account doesn’t mean Microsoft is automatically counting you as a user of Xbox Live, Office Web Apps, Hotmail, etc. Each of those services are considered separate entities, but you can use a single Windows Live account to connect to all of them if you wish.

What Google is doing here is trying to artificially pad their Google+ membership numbers by counting anyone who signs up for a single Google service as a member of EVERY Google service. That’s definitely a little shady.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-174209 Anonymous Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-174209 I don’t understand what the issue is here. Are they forcing users to use all of their services? Nope.

Just because they’re saying they need the other information (some of those “additional” information is needed for account recovery) doesn’t automatically equal signing up for every single google services

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-174210 Anonymous Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-174210 I don’t understand what the issue is here. Are they forcing users to use all of their services? Nope.

Just because they’re saying they need the other information (some of those “additional” information is needed for account recovery) doesn’t automatically equal signing up for every single google services

]]> By: Fonz http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-174039 Fonz Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:51:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-174039 Create an alias.

]]> By: Fonz http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-174040 Fonz Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:51:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-174040 Create an alias.

]]> By: Fonz http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-174041 Fonz Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:51:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-174041 Create an alias.

]]> By: Bob http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173876 Bob Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173876 Is G+ being forced onto users? Thats a NO NO for me!

]]> By: Bob http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173877 Bob Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173877 Is G+ being forced onto users? Thats a NO NO for me!

]]> By: Bob http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173878 Bob Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173878 Is G+ being forced onto users? Thats a NO NO for me!

]]> By: Bob http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173879 Bob Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173879 Is G+ being forced onto users? Thats a NO NO for me!

]]> By: Bob http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173880 Bob Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173880 Is G+ being forced onto users? Thats a NO NO for me!

]]> By: whosaidwhat http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173704 whosaidwhat Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:11:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173704 This is nothing new. Anyone here have a .live account? It’s not just email, you automatically sign up for a bunch of other services. My .live account works on a lot of Microsoft’s services (both corporate and home services). 

Stay away from google if you don’t like the services they provide. Bundling all their services under one account makes a lot of sense. Don’t want to use G+? Never visit G+. It’s really that simple. Since day one, signing up for a google account gives you access to Picasa, Doc, etc and I for one, like that. 

]]> By: whosaidwhat http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173705 whosaidwhat Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:11:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173705 This is nothing new. Anyone here have a .live account? It’s not just email, you automatically sign up for a bunch of other services. My .live account works on a lot of Microsoft’s services (both corporate and home services). 

Stay away from google if you don’t like the services they provide. Bundling all their services under one account makes a lot of sense. Don’t want to use G+? Never visit G+. It’s really that simple. Since day one, signing up for a google account gives you access to Picasa, Doc, etc and I for one, like that. 

]]> By: whosaidwhat http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173706 whosaidwhat Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:11:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173706 This is nothing new. Anyone here have a .live account? It’s not just email, you automatically sign up for a bunch of other services. My .live account works on a lot of Microsoft’s services (both corporate and home services). 

Stay away from google if you don’t like the services they provide. Bundling all their services under one account makes a lot of sense. Don’t want to use G+? Never visit G+. It’s really that simple. Since day one, signing up for a google account gives you access to Picasa, Doc, etc and I for one, like that. 

]]> By: whosaidwhat http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173707 whosaidwhat Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:11:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173707 This is nothing new. Anyone here have a .live account? It’s not just email, you automatically sign up for a bunch of other services. My .live account works on a lot of Microsoft’s services (both corporate and home services). 

Stay away from google if you don’t like the services they provide. Bundling all their services under one account makes a lot of sense. Don’t want to use G+? Never visit G+. It’s really that simple. Since day one, signing up for a google account gives you access to Picasa, Doc, etc and I for one, like that. 

]]> By: Spyvie Locust http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173659 Spyvie Locust Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:19:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173659 So you don’t think we would all be better off if that iPod dock would work seamlessly with other phones and music players? And there is no way I’d buy a bimmer with auto trans, so I would demand that choice at least or I’d buy something else.

If any car maker ever got to the point of near total market domination that Google has achieved in it’s own market the whole world would be screaming foul.

]]> By: Cis4 http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173658 Cis4 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:15:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173658 Oh no’s! This new BMW comes with Bluetooth, an Pod dock, cuphilders,power everything,automatic transmision, and a radio! I just want a no-frills car, what am I going to do!? Buy a Kia?

]]> By: Spyvie Locust http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173655 Spyvie Locust Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:05:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173655 I have yet to discover a valid use for G+, other than the instant upload feature for photos and video taken with my Android phone. However, I have yet to figure out a to way easily link a shared photo with a non-G+ user, even just to send a link to another Gmail user. That seems like a basic function for a service so totally in command of my online profile.

I agree with the poster below who says Google is getting more evil by the day, but whadda we gunna do? There is no other source for all the services Google provides, or at least not all in one place and as user friendly. I’ll continue to carefully expolre most of what they have to offer without trusting them much at all.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance…

]]> By: Fred Horein http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173653 Fred Horein Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173653 I understand the practical reasons for this move but they really should have waited on this.  Just recently Google+ hit 90 million users, and impressive as it is it’ll be the last impressive bit of news on the subject.  By irrevocably linking Google+ to the rest of Google’s services, it’ll be impossible to tell how many of those new users actually wanted to use Google+ or not.  I’m sure it’s great and all for maintaining a consistent online environment (for example Search plus Your World is a very nice feature), but there is something to be said about keeping your services separated by default.

]]> By: Vv http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173648 Vv Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:56:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173648 This is really annoying. I start wondering what’s comming next…

]]> By: Charlie Hart http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173647 Charlie Hart Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:55:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173647 Google+ is a failure, it’s a shame the stakes are too high, I’d love them to just give up on it and stick to email with email and search with search.  I hate the social mergance with technology, keep them separate please.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173643 Anonymous Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:51:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173643 Google is getting more and more evil every day. 

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/google-pushing-google-and-gmail-on-new-sign-ups-20210244/#comment-173641 Anonymous Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:43:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=210244#comment-173641 and they wonder why governments are investigating them for anti-trust violations 

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