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Absolutely no reason to pay for gmail @ vanity domain. Why I thought they would offer this service for free forever and actually went through with setting my kids up this way is beyond me - now it’s just 4x the work to migrate.
I'm definitely getting screwed over by this. I've hosted close friend's and family's email for a decade now on an old G Apps instance. We only ever used it for email on a custom domain. It was most useful because I could reset passwords for them if they forgot it. Now I'm going to have to figure out what to do. Microsoft's Family offering is way better (not saying much considering Google doesn't have one). Right now…
Why would you lose purchases? Can't you continue to log in with the same email@domain just with a different provider for mail / calendar / etc.?
"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further". The problem here is there's no way out now. If 15 years ago you made the mistake of wanting gasp a domain for your email, you're basically roped into paying now. Almost everything a free G Suite user wants is identical to the free @gmail account, which is remaining free. Except the custom domain. Fine - but there's no way to just lose the custom domain at t…
You're not roped in (good, albeit not free, alternatives exist), but yeah, this is just a fuckover. I've been paying google for GDrive for some time now, and that's about to end. It's back to Dropbox. I know, I don't have to do this, but the hell with google. I'm done. This is nothing short of a needless f---over, and I want as little to do with them as possible.
It would be a little different if they did this to _everyone_ and completely removed the free @gmail plans. But instead they're targeting GSuite users when @gmail plans are _right there_, because they know they can get it.
Honestly, if it weren't for the alternatives setting somewhat of a market price, little could stop them from charging triple. The only comparable plan is the lowest tier of 4 tiers as it is, and I doubt it's gonna get _cheaper_ over time.
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Why would you lose purchases? Can't you continue to log in with the same email@domain just with a different provider for mail / calendar / etc.?
If you migrate to a google workspace subscription wouldn't you keep the purchases?
I already pay $99 for Microsoft Office apps. I can move to them for the lowest business account which includes that and for just a little more get what I currently have. Anyway, I have until May to figure out what I want to do.
"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further". The problem here is there's no way out now. If 15 years ago you made the mistake of wanting gasp a domain for your email, you're basically roped into paying now. Almost everything a free G Suite user wants is identical to the free @gmail account, which is remaining free. Except the custom domain. Fine - but there's no way to just lose the custom domain at t…
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?
Am admin for such a domain; not had the email; do not see anything in my admin portal advising?
Spending anything more than a trivial amount of money for "cloud purchases" with next to no control over when the actual owner can change their mind, seems crazy to me.
I knew something like this would probably come, but it doesn't make it any better. Complete BS. 16 years ago me and my friends signed up for "GMail for your domain". That's it. We wanted to use GMail, which was by far the best email available at the time, and have email addresses at our own domain instead of @gmail.com. That's it. Since that time several of us have been using our GFYD/GSuite/Workspaces accounts as ou…
Are they holding your domain hostage somehow?