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

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It's sad that the MBA's have finally taken over at Google, and now they have to squeeze every last penny out of their customers (on top of all the ads they sell). The worst part of all this, is most of us casual users just want to do email, nothing else. I personally don't have a high enough volume of email to even warrant paying out for most services.

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

#772

So if I use gmail for personal email, I now have to switch to a paid plan?

You will need to switch if you use a grandfathered G Suite "legacy" free account, as of May, if you wish to continue to use it.

A free @gmail.com? Nothing to do with it.

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

#773

Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…

Same here, what a royal PITA, personally I could migrate pretty easily, but the rest of the family that is not tech-savvy won't be a walk in the part.

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

#774

It's sad that the MBA's have finally taken over at Google, and now they have to squeeze every last penny out of their customers (on top of all the ads they sell). The worst part of all this, is most of us casual users just want to do email, nothing else. I personally don't have a high enough volume of email to even warrant paying out for most services.

Why do people speak of MBA as if it is a bad thing? Serious question, in India it is often seen as an extremely prestigious title and its a gateway into a high paying position. Or is there a cultural difference I'm not understanding?

It's not so much the MBA itself as it is what it represents. An MBA refers to an individual who is a general manager and typically come from sales or finance organization. They generally aren't concerned too much with research and development except they view them as cost centers to be optimized. They tend to be hyperfocused on the bottom line and will do anything needed to maximize profits, even at the expense of the product.

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

#776

So if I use gmail for personal email, I now have to switch to a paid plan?

If you use GSuite Legacy for personal email, you would have the choice of switching to a paid plan, or migrating your email to a personal account (or any other email hosting provider.)

If you use a personal GMail account, there is no change here that applies to you.

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

#777

So if I use gmail for personal email, I now have to switch to a paid plan?

No. This isn’t about Gmail. It’s about G Suite (formerly Google Apps), which was a business offering from the start. It certainly also contains a mail component based on the same technology, but it’s not Gmail.

If your address is somebody@gmail.com, you are not affected.

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

#778

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a number of users at user1/user2/etc@mydomain.com on G Suite. If I started to use Fastmail, could they all continue to use their existing email addresses at Fastmail to send/receive mail, access their historical emails (if I copy those across) etc using whatever client? And second question: if after this G Suite shutdown in May (or whenever) Gmail is stopped for these users they can presumably still link Fastm…

(I'm not affiliated with Fastmail, just a user of their services. Please do research to double-check stuff.) > I have a number of users at user1/user2/etc@mydomain.com on G Suite. If I started to use Fastmail, could they all continue to use their existing email addresses at Fastmail to send/receive mail, access their historical emails (if I copy those across) etc using whatever client? Fastmail supports multiple user…

Thanks, but Fastmail is $5 per user per month if you want to use your own domain. Not much less than Google's $6 per user per month. I'm going to want between 2 and 4 users, but they're not heavy users and I just know I'm going to be wondering why I'm bothering to pay when I could just create another google account, have access to docs/calendar/drive/etc which I'm apparently not going to have access to even if I am successful in doing the "update to workspace/don't pay for workspace/cancel workspace/keep the workspace accounts in a sort of zombie state" dance.

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

#779

It would be cheaper to go with iCloud+ service which offers custom email domains. I am now considering that after being on the free legacy plan for all of these years. https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/add-a-custom-domain-m...

Can you use it for things like e-mail if everyone doesn't use Apple stuff?
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