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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.
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?
The solution is to allow users an option to convert back to a free account without losing access to their data, files, apps, and any purchased digital goods.
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...
I am not willing to pay USD4x6x12 per year to have this continue to work. Looking around for the most affordable alternative for four active email accounts brings me to... Microsoft! Microsoft 365 Family Edition. Like a lot of salary drones I use Microsoft products at work, so I get a discount.
It is sad to be paying for full Microsoft Office capability only to not use it, only to keep my email addresses working. It seems positively bizarre, from the view of 20 years ago, to be fleeing from Google to Microsoft. But the fact remains, CAD$76.xx or so per year is something I can stomach for email address continuity for four people. Well, maybe the terabyte of cloud storage per user could come in handy for (encrypted) cloud backups as well.
If you can't get the employee discount, googling suggests the best deal for M$365 Family in Canada is: Costco! $99 for 15 months.
Anyone else find something good for four users? A colleague has Fastmail for CAD$46/year (paid multiple years in advance). I'd love to use that, but for four users... too expensive again.
Furthermore, the costs to upgrade are not egregious, most everyone here would not have a big problem with it.
Also, it's not like one is losing one's email address -- you control the domain...
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You can transfer a phone number from that sort of account to a Gmail account. I just tried it and it seems to work. Go into settings then transfer. It takes you to the legacy page to do the transfer, oddly.
Does this actually work? The help site ( https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667?visit_id=637... ) states that: > A Voice for Google Workspace account number to any other type of Google Account, including personal accounts and accounts using a different Google Workspace domain. I am confused if my Legacy G Suite account is considered a Google Workspace account of if it's something different.
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Your use-case could be well solved by Cloudflare's email forwarding[1]. I'm contemplating switching since I'm already on Google One. [1][ https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/email-forwarding ]
That is a third party paid app. The Cloudflare one is in preview https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/
In my case, I only have one user, so it's not a big issue paying for it. But I also use Google Voice which isn't part of the standard Google Workspace package and I have to pay $10/month/user to add it.
So I would go from paying $0/year to $192/year ($6/month for Google Workspace + $10/month for Google Voice) is a bit of a pain. I am OK paying $72/year for email, etc. but $200 is a bit steep.
And if I want to migrate to a non-G Suite account, none of my history will transfer over.
This was essential for me as I used g suite for my family and some are using it for photos.