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

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 12:06 PM UTC

300bps wrote: post #517

Kalium wrote: post #504

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> In particular, the short notice period (3 months + 2 months grace) for something people have been using for a decade is jarring. For me, this raises the obvious question. How long a notice period is long enough? Six months? Eight? A year? Five years? A decade? I think we can all agree that a decade would be an excessive and unreasonable expectation. > By the same token, people have been using free Gmail accounts fo…

How long a notice period is long enough? Looking at it another way, Google's most recent net profit is $18.94 billion per quarter. I have no idea but if there are 1 million G Suite Legacy accounts out there at $60 per year. That would increase their revenue $60 million per year. So just assume all that revenue is net profit which would make their quarterly net profit go from $18.94 billion to $18.955 billion for the…

Post by srg0 » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 12:09 PM UTC

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You're complaining that a service you use all the time for a decade for free now might cost the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month? I'm all about Google being evil and all that, but spending valuable aggression on this seems a bit excessive.. The Google Takeout system gives you all of your email in a format you might be able to import into another system?

I host 7 emails right now, it'd cost $500/year for email moving forward. I'd be happy to convert accounts to personal Gmail accounts and do mail forwarding. I'd be happy to move to a family plan for $100/year. After being a user for a decade, you'd think Google would provide me a reasonable way to pay them for their services. But I can't swing $500/year for email.

Post by aembleton » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 12:12 PM UTC

dheera wrote: post #478

theossuary wrote: post #226

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…

I never got this e-mail. Does that mean I'm not subject to this?

Post by kcartlidge » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 12:16 PM UTC

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I totally get that this is largely about losing a decade of "purchased" stuff that is tied to the email address, meaning you're being heavily steered into starting paying for emails etc just to keep your purchased movies, apps, and so on. If you do decide to move away it may not be as bad as you expect for the everyday email, contacts, and calendar. In particular when it comes to your email you probably don't need to…

Users won't lose anything purchased - your google login will stay the same (Same as you can use your Yahoo e-mail as google login), you will just lose g suite domain hosting.

Post by MikusR » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 12:36 PM UTC

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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.