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I've got you covered. I watched the video, and here's what you can now do with Google Workspace:

* Be notified when packages are coming via "e mail"

* Send your own "e mail" to other people

* Organize events by date in a "calendar"

* Write an episode of Stranger Things in a "document", or if you don't happen to own the Stranger Things franchise, write about your viewing experience

* Write down a list of band names

* Sum the number of times a given child poops in a day in a "spreadsheet"

* Take part in a "meet", which is a sort of phone call but with video

I hope that clears it up.

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This "e mail" thing sounds intriguing. How does the "e mailman" know where to deliver this "e mail", and do I need "e stamps"?

Check out the "Ralph breaks the internet" documentary. It has an easy to follow explanation.

The work procedures of the "e mailman" were captured in this documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x4_dozWkq0

Remove one thing or two and this looks like the script of an Apple computer ad in 1985. Google is an Ad monopoly with a searcher tacked on, and many short-lived projects created to justify the promotions and roles of their overqualified work force. Although judging by examples like this one, I dont think all of them are over-qualified,

They need to actually diversify from search and advertising. Gcp was a good go, but isn’t here there. IMO selling tensor compute could really compete, but they are not too into that and pushing this with the cringe execution. Almost as bad as their hardware announcement for pixel devices a couple years ago. You look at goog versus aapl hardware event and the execution is kinda night and day in apple’s favor.

Great, now I have to watch it to see if you're joking about the baby pooping part.

You'll probably know by now, but sadly he wasn't joking.

Wow, this is reminding me of Microsoft's videos on how to throw a launch party to celebrate a new version of Windows.

https://youtu.be/1cX4t5-YpHQ

I started wondering if it's really from MS or maybe a joke but got too bored to continue watching to find out

It's sadly real.

Thanks :-) then I don't need to feel too depressed about not-that-top-great media I've produced myself once or more

This all reminds me too much of this joke video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp2-EUKQAI

>or do they want to run a program for little kindergarteners to track how many times they poop their diapers every day?

https://youtu.be/ICp2-EUKQAI?t=199

Wow, Google literally demos almost exactly that:

https://youtu.be/Q_ZPBqVF0_8?t=12

Judging by the clock on the range hood.. that took 1.5 hours to put in the can. LOL!

Nice catch. Not sure if you're making fun of the fact that it took so long to record all the takes for this video, but 1.5 hours seems reasonable. As an amateur, it would probably have taken me 4-5 hours to record that.

I threw one of those. Unfortunately, I missed this video, and just served alcohol and played games on a Playstation 3, and enjoyed my free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Those Windows 7 playing cards were pretty clutch, though.

I recommend Huckleberry [1] for all your baby poop tracking needs. I wouldn't want to do that shit in a spreadsheet.

[1] https://huckleberrycare.com/

All for $72/year. I'm pretty sure I could already do all those things.

And chat. You forgot “chat”!

I’m still puzzled at what’s new and what’s different from what people with (free and paid) Google accounts have.

What makes a "meet" special is that in a meet, it's socially acceptable to scream while looking at your phone.

Revolutionary.

The old Google (of Larry and Sergey) is gone.

It was gone before they left. They used to poke fun at it.

In many ways, the market has matured enough that Old Google isn't viable. Shareholders care about P&L and Google's one major innovation, "ads that work," is industry standard now. Old Google worked because ads made so much money that it drowned out everything else and gave people a lot of freedom to do crazy things.

Wall Street wants the numbers.

That's all fine and dandy, but can I make boring presentations full of bulleted lists? Because missing that would really be a deal breaker for me.

Ya I watched the video and still have no clue what this does over regular Gmail/docs combo.

Also Google's spreadsheet program is dogballs compared to excel.

Excel is certainly superior for analysis etc, but there are plenty of use cases where Google sheets is superior to excel, for instance http api to interact with your sheet. Depends what you're trying to achieve really.

I think power query in excel does http and more quite easily.

What about 'encryption'? It apparently part of it, but the examples were using a plugin written by a third party.

such ~~synergies~~ !

Wow this reminded me of this Weird al Yankovic gem: https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4

Now I can finally start my Stranger Things fan-fic project!

This made my day... ... and saved me watching!

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