Google Apps renamed to G Suite

[Haptic]

Hi All

 

Hopefully your Friday is relatively pain free (unlike some of us making radical changes to the website in a hurried fashion!)

 

Anyhoo, Google have decided to rename their Apps For Education and Apps for Work offering as : G Suite / G Suite for Education.

 

We initially thought of Snoop Dogg's favourite hotel, chuckled, then got over it.

 

As we are fully fledged Google For Education/Work Partners we've clearly had our work cut out this morning.

 

Here's a link to the news post, there's a link to Google's own blog there too.

 

What are your thoughts on the new handle?

 

Joe

[kmount]

Reckon they did it for the G-Men to feel comfortable?

[flyinghaggis]

Personally I think it sounds tacky, naff and very generic. G-Suite sounds like a low-rent 90's Microsoft Office alternative IMO!

 

I think they'd be better to use the name Google rather than abbreviate it to 'G'! Also, I dislike describing it as a 'suite'. It sounds too narrow in it's focus given what Google offers with their cloud platform. Google Apps sounded better. Why not go with Google Cloud, Google Portal or something along those lines?

 

I guess it's just a name and the apps will remain the same so ultimately there's no impact but I don't get why they'd rebrand it to that? I'm sure they have their reasons though

[sparkeh]

Sounds terrible. Like they are trying to go all gangsta or something?

[Haptic]

The Jamiroquai lyric of "...this love we have of useless twisting, of a new technology..." springs to mind.

 

We liked it as it was, however one must always move with the times!

 

Joe

[6Foot2]

Link: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/cloud-services/175128-official-google-cloud-blog-all-together-now-introducing-g-suite.html

 

From the blog:

 

...We created Google Apps for Work ten years ago (back when it was Google Apps for Your Domain) to do just that — to help people everywhere work and innovate together, so businesses can move faster and go bigger.

 

And today, we’re introducing a new name that better reflects this mission: G Suite...

 

[elsiegee40]

Reminds me of popular 1970s furniture - G Plan anyone?

 

EDIT

They're still in business apparently!

http://www.gplan.co.uk/

 

We had something like this

Edited September 30, 2016 by elsiegee40

[6Foot2]

Reminds me of popular 1970s furniture - G Plan anyone?..

 

Yup. There was one at home when I was growing up. Similar to, but not the same as, the one below:

 

http://www.anecdotesdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/GPLANDrinks_sideboard_open_300-640x400.jpg

[biz]

Reminds me of popular 1970s furniture - G Plan anyone?

 

My Mum had a three piece G (plan) Suite - very comfortable it was too.

[XiJ]

Wonder if they've done it because of the apple 'app store' and people associating apps with that.

 

I preferred google apps to be honest. Seemed a perfect, and simple name.

[Mr_Jiminy]

The mods will probably frown on this, so apologies in advance.

 

I'm sure the new name will hit the spot...

[elsiegee40]

I think we had better draw a veil over this thread before it derails further!