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Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by 422long »

tyingq wrote: post #124
signal11 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there an equivalent of Microsoft’s Home Use Program (HUP) for Google Workspace? HUP gets you Microsoft 365 (Office apps, OneDrive, ad-free email with a 50GB quota and one custom domain) for your family, with 30% off list price for people using Microsoft solutions at work — which is most office workers, assuming their employers have opted in. It’d be nice to see something similar from Google.

The 365 Family plan is $99/year, total (not per person), for up to 6 people, and you can use your own domain.

Funny.. I was apparently already paying for this and never knew it came with email. Too bad there is a 6 person hard limit as I need 7 accounts.

Just tested a bit and it looks like only domains with DNS hosted by Godaddy work with this.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by quesomaster9000 »

treesknees wrote: post #64
mgraczyk wrote: post #49

I'm a Google employee who just found out about this. I'm not annoyed that I have to pay, it's been ~13 years of free service and I don't think Google is obligated to continue providing this to me. The annoying part is that Google doesn't provide any migration tool, but there are migration tools for Google Edu accounts so that graduating students can migrate their data to personal Google accounts. The software is evid…

The problem is, I'm not a freeloader despite having my free account for almost 13 years. I was a proud owner of Nexus phones, Google Fi subscriber, Google Music (YouTube Premium) subscriber, I've purchased apps and tv content on Google Play, and I also started paying for Google Drive storage after they removed the free unlimited photo backups. I had YouTube TV for a time. Having a powerful Gsuite service was a drivin…

The long-tail isn't being considered here IMO.

Dyn.com (nee DynDNS, in the dialup days) was bought out by Oracle, my nearly 20 year old lifetime VIP account will be terminated in May despite using a few thousand requests per month and in the past highly recommending their extortionately priced but rather excellent global load balancer and enterprise anycast services (to the tune of thousands of dollars per month).

Likewise with Google, I had an original G1 phone and several iterations of the Pixel, have migrated several companies over to their excellent their cloud offerings, again to the tune of tens of thousands per month.

It just feels like I'm getting the shitty end of the stick here. In both cases I could've done it cheaper myself with other providers, and had to strongly argue that the alternative (Dyn, Google Cloud, AWS etc.) is a pragmatic and possibly the best albeit expensive choice in the long-run.

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Post by Octopuz »

seanwilson wrote: post #141

Hmm, if you're using x@example.com via G Suite, how do you transition away from G Suite but still use x@example.com to login to your Android phone and other Google sign-in related stuff? Anything you need to be careful of so you don't get locked out?

Either become a nonprofit or delete the account in G Suite and recreate it as a free regular Google account after the domain name has been removed from G Suite.

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Post by snuxoll »

samueldr wrote: post #93

I figure all play store purchases and similar content are now taken hostage. Are there any ways to migrate those licenses to a "google account"? Or am I being forced to pay to keep using licenses I already paid for? Oh, and what about my YouTube channel?

This is really pissing me off because of this. I've dealt with annoying limitations on my Google Account that I created back when it was just "Google Apps for Domains" to have a custom email domain for myself and my family. The service has been plagued with limitations as Google has added new services, but I've dealt with it as a nuisance - now my account is being held hostage?

Google can get bent. They advertised Google Apps as a solution for families way back when it was announced, and they're seemingly content to burn any good will it bought them.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by dylan604 »

withinboredom wrote: post #86
SteveNuts wrote: post #83

Google is really on a killing spree lately. Can any insiders give us insight into whether the people at the top of Google are aware that they have a strong reputation in the community for killing things off?

not an insider but I don't think they really care.

also not an insider, but it's obvious that Google is running out of runway and needs to start making money on its products lest it should shutter its doors. /s

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

wodenokoto wrote: post #122
herodoturtle wrote: post #91

What are some (paid) alternatives to using G-Suite for emails? Context: We're a small but relatively old SaaS company. Been happily using G Suite's free tier since day 1 - only for email. This announcement is a tad disappointing, but as other commenters have said, 10 years of a free product is pretty great. We'll likely upgrade to Google's paid tier, but out of curiosity, since we're switching to a paid service, we m…

If you’re not using the productivity suite (docs, drive, sheets and whatnot) why not go with the little guy and use Fastmail? $5/user with 30gb or 100gb per user for $9/month Their support replies faster than google :)

Does Google support ever reply???!

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by mike503 »

If you have a Google registered domain don’t they throw in Workspace for free? Is that a possible way to continue keeping at least a single base account alive without paying per month?

Otherwise I guess I’m going to look at using something to forward emails to my free Google account (Cloudflare now has email forwarding…)

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by area51org »

I'm just like so many others here: I've had these services for years and now they pull the plug.

Here's an exercise in how to piss off the world.

I will never recommend or use google products in the future if I have a choice. Never. Reason: you just don't know what Google is going to do next.

Here's a highly successful, multi-billion-dollar company. They don't need the money. But they want it, because apparently, there just aren't enough billions.

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Post by area51org »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #157
wodenokoto wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re not using the productivity suite (docs, drive, sheets and whatnot) why not go with the little guy and use Fastmail? $5/user with 30gb or 100gb per user for $9/month Their support replies faster than google :)

Does Google support ever reply???!

Rarely if ever, AFAIK.
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