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Google seems to be taking a stick and carrot approach to attracting new customers onto their expanse of apps. Last month they announced that all apps on Google Play for Work would be free, which resulted in 2 million paid businesses, and they’ve just announced a program to vet and recommend third party enterprise apps. The company announced at the Web Summit in Dublin that they would introduce a new program called “Recommended for Google Apps for Work” along with an update on paid user numbers.

This is something that Apple has done in the past, joining hands with IBM to sponsor enterprise apps for iOS and Mac, always sticking to promoting their own apps, and it’s a development that could bring in thousands of new customers and give Google a one up in the unending app race. So far, eight apps have made it onto the Google Apps platform: ProsperWorks for CRM, Smartsheet, Ringcenral, Switch, AODocs, Powertools, Ping Identity and Okta.

Google will also start to feature enterprise apps with Google Play for Work counterparts, and with Dropbox announcing it’ll become a business platform for businesses looking to work with a cloud system. Google Apps are certainly getting ahead in the race to build businesses on app and cloud systems, and by using this specific approach, which plainly wags a sure promise for success in front of users, it seems they’ll secure headway for some time.

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Google has announced its plans to further separate its sinking ship of a social media platform, Google+, from its other services.

Crushed Dreams

When Google launched Google+ back in June 2011, it was touted as another mythical Facebook-killer. The platform was exclusive and users needed to be invited in order to use the service. Even with the gate, Google managed to accumulate 20 million unique visitors to the site within the first three months of its launch.

Unfortunately for Google, Google+ just didn’t pick up the steam it needed in order to close the massive gap Facebook had on it. In an official blog post, Google mentioned that users weren’t really fond of using Google as their social “identity” when using Google’s services, though they did like the convenience of using one account to log into the services.

Moving Away from Google+

So, with that in mind, Google has decided to let users create, share, communicate, create a YouTube channel and more with just a normal Google Account. The first step involves separating YouTube comments from Google+ posts. This is a welcomed change since YouTube comments have a way of diluting legitimate discussion due to the fast-paced nature of the commenting system and its incoherent formatting.

Google+ Will Find Life After Death

Bradley Horowitz, VP of streams, photos, and sharing, has stated that Google won’t be giving up on Google+, however.

“We’re going to continue focusing Google+ on helping users connect around the interest they love, and retire it as the mechanism by which people share and engage within other Google products,” said Horowitz.

The idea is to shift the focus of Google+. Rather than trying to use it as a platform to encompass all of Google’s services, it will simply exist as a way for others to connect through what they love. With this in mind, Google+ will still be launching its newest feature, Google+ collections. This feature introduces a new way for users to group their posts by topic.

Every collection will be focused on a specific topic, allowing users to have a streamlined way of organizing their interests.

With Google+ Photos recently canned and now Google+ being separated from all of Google’s other services, it will be interesting to see what other changes Google will be announcing in the future.

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Google Removes the Google+ Requirement from Its Services

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Earlier today, Google publicly announced that the company will be shutting down its photo hosting services Google+ Photos starting August 1. Google isn’t shy about shutting down popular services. Some of the bigger closures have included Google Talk, Google Reader, Google Wave, and a laundry list of other abandoned projects.

Jump Off Google+ Photos While You Can

The good news is that Google is giving users plenty of time to move their photos from Google+ Photos to another photo sharing solution of their choice. So far, the company hasn’t made any mention of a deadline, but they won’t be hosting user photos forever. During this time, users will be be able to access their photos through Google Takeout.

What Are Your Options?

Google+ Photos wasn’t the most popular photo sharing platform, so there is actually a pretty good chance that this won’t affect many users. Android users had the option to automatically backup photos to Google+ Photos for backup, but many socialites will probably have duplicates of their photos spread far across the internet. If that happens to be the case,then users will probably be content in letting their photos go down with the ship.

On the other hand, users who do document their entire life on Google+ Photos will you’ll probably be very interested in keeping their photos alive and well. One approach is to painstakingly download every photo to a hard drive and then upload it to another photo sharing site, but an easier method will be to use Google’s new Google Photos app.

The New Kid on the Block

That’s right, Google is just dropping the “+” branding. Google will be using the same servers it hosted its Google+ Photos data and is already migrating the data from one service to another. So users who want to keep using Google’s services can just wait for the app to update on its own sometime this week for Android users and sometime soon for iOS users.

So, will you be taking all of your Google+ Photos and making the great migration over to the new Google Photos, or has the app’s glorified name change left a nasty taste in your mouth?

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