Google's branding continues to confuse me. Isn't Google Cloud their AWS competitor, and the thing they're talking about in this article called G Suite?
Google naming products at this point is just memes. But it proves that if you have an amazing enough product (G suite) the name doesn’t matter at all. Whoever came up with G suite is just a bad person though ugh.
I'm all against rigid company culture, but google naming needs to be improved.
Variables are consistently named better at google than the products they are written for.
The naming doesn't even need to be improved, they just need to stop with the renaming. GSuite is an awful name, but i know what it means at this point as long as they don't sometimes call it "Google Cloud" instead.
G Suite has been called in the past "Google for Work", "Google Enterprise", "Google Business", "Google Apps", "Google Apps for Business", "Google Apps for Work", and I probably forget some more. It's really insane.
I think it's a deliberate strategy. Microsoft does it as well. By blurring the line between pure consumer apps, business apps and their PaaS/IaaS services. So there sales team can say "You have G Suite? Then you're already a cloud customer! Why not add Firebase and Cloud SQL to your plan?" It gives an illusion of seamless integration.
