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Google Is Holding All Your Old Free G Suite Accounts Hostage

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Re: Google Is Holding All Your Old Free G Suite Accounts Hostage

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shon wrote: post #30
kevingadd wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't even mind paying for it but the nature of the transition and the cost for the features is obscene. For example, I have a secondary address for business reasons and in the new g suite that has to be an "account" which costs money every month

As others have said, you can set up aliases / groups and those do not require additional accounts. Also if you’re the only account then you can just configure a catch-all in the routing section so that anything@your domain goes to you. That’s no additional cost even on these basic accounts I believe. I use this so I can also track by using a new address for each service (e.g. twitter@mydomain.com, ebay@mydomain.com,…

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Post by croutonwagon »

zerocrates wrote: post #28

So the last I heard about this, Google had relented to some extent and was going to offer some offramp for people who had data, purchases, etc. in an old free Apps for Domain/G Suite/Workspace account. They had a form you could submit to saying you wanted more information about those options. Has anyone heard any more on this front? I don't mind paying someone else just to run email for my domain (or potentially even…

I signed up for the form. Have not heard but they DID say it would be after April 1.

My guess is they have a Family Tier. Same limits as free, but with a cost.

Personally I'm willing to foot the bill if i have to, but that will probably only be a stopgap to get to something that is cheaper.

Unfortunately a lot of the heralded services (ie: ProtonMail) dont have the same services (ie: no contacts sync or notes sync etc). That is VERY handy outside the app. While i could work around it, not sure family would be a willing.

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Post by vmception »

IMSAI8080 wrote: post #4

I migrated to Zoho back in January for email and opened a regular Google account for YouTube etc. Just waiting for them to kick me off now.

I tried to do that, lasted for like one week.

At the time, Calendar invitations? broken

Google Meet? broken

Everyone on my team under this domain had these zoho emails and was wondering the point of this masochistic exercise of not using gmail.

and yet, I mean it works, and its not a Zoho issue, its a Google network effects issue. Having to make a google account for your non-google email just to join a meet or load a spreadsheet is just bleeeeehhhhhh! I think its the mental association with that email then having a gmail inbox, but it doesnt end there as I'm pretty sure the ux was worse than just that.

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Post by ipaddr »

gowld wrote: post #14
scumola wrote: post #3

Yet another good, working service that Google shuts down for the almighty dollar

What free services do you operate?

Google has a monopoly and are part of many dupolies in many areas. Offering free services to create lockin and switching the terms is the basis of the complaints here.

Many small companies had a business around maps. Google's free products kill most of them. Now that they are gone google starts charging to embed maps.

What free services has the parent offered killing a market only to require payment short after? None..

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Post by spoonjim »

This is the kind of company that Google has always been - eager to make money off you in dark alleyways and always eager to throw users to the piranhas when it's not worth their time anymore.

The end result is for want of a few engineers to maintain Google Reader or a few dollars of revenue left on the table for free G Suite users, Google's users don't trust the company farther they can throw it, which has led to hundreds of billions of dollars of lost enterprise value as products like Google Cloud just don't have the trust to compete with AWS and Azure.

Re: Google Is Holding All Your Old Free G Suite Accounts Hostage

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Post by dddddaviddddd »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #29

This is outdated right? The article is from back in January, before Google relented and added a way to migrate back to a regular Gmail account: https://www.androidcentral.com/g-suite-legacy-free-edition-u...

This tool hasn't been released yet, right?
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