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TL;DR
- The Google Residence app has code strings that reference a brand new Google subscription bundle.
- The wording suggests the bundle may embrace Nest Conscious, Google One, and “extra,” though it’s unclear what the “extra” might be referencing.
- Google just lately dismantled Pixel Move, a earlier subscription bundle it supplied.
When you concentrate on it, Google has quite a lot of subscription providers. There’s Google One, which presents cloud storage together with quite a few different Google perks. Nest Conscious helps its Nest good house merchandise, YouTube has a number of subscription packages beneath its roof, and even Fitbit Premium is a Google product now. It’s so much!
Nonetheless, it appears like Google might be engaged on a strategy to bundle at the least two of those providers collectively. Based on an APK teardown of the Google Residence app (v3.7), an “all-in-one plan” might be supplied quickly. As found by 9to5Google, a code string clearly defines the Google subscription bundle as “Nest Conscious, 2TB of storage for Photographs, Drive, and Gmail, and extra advantages.”
It’s unclear what the “…and extra advantages” portion means. It might be that different providers are included right here, corresponding to premium YouTube membership or another Google-owned service. Nonetheless, it’s additionally attainable it may simply be referencing different Google One advantages not listed there, corresponding to entry to a free VPN.
Both means, the alleged bundle contains Nest Conscious and a 2TB Google One plan, which is a reasonably helpful combo for folk with a Nest-based good house.
After all, bundles are solely useful in the event that they prevent cash. Google just lately elevated the worth of a Nest Conscious subscription to $8 every month, and a 2TB One plan prices $9.99 every month. Due to this fact, if this bundle doesn’t price lower than $17 every month, what could be the purpose of bundling?
Curiously, this rumor of a brand new Google subscription bundle comes proper on the heels of the loss of life of a earlier subscription bundle referred to as Pixel Move. Pixel Move bundled a number of Google providers collectively and included the most recent Pixel cellphone. Nonetheless, it didn’t even make it two years earlier than Google shuttered it simply weeks earlier than the Pixel 8 launch.