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GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by asd123124 »

meh. this is exactly what was always available.

The catch is, as soon as you migrate you will lose your gvoice number, since that is not included in the "all free services will be migrated".

And then it will be too late to research alternatives as you lost your number and will start paying (and then realize your old number is long gone :)

Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by smileybarry »

asd123124 wrote: post #2

meh. this is exactly what was always available. The catch is, as soon as you migrate you will lose your gvoice number, since that is not included in the "all free services will be migrated". And then it will be too late to research alternatives as you lost your number and will start paying (and then realize your old number is long gone :)

Not exactly the same as normal Gmail, this option lets you keep using a custom domain at $0/month, which basic Gmail doesn't offer. To me it's 100% worth it as that was my main concern (with so many accounts bound to my domain email).

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Post by csdvrx »

asd123124 wrote: post #2

meh. this is exactly what was always available. The catch is, as soon as you migrate you will lose your gvoice number, since that is not included in the "all free services will be migrated". And then it will be too late to research alternatives as you lost your number and will start paying (and then realize your old number is long gone :)

What would you recommend to safeguard the number?

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Post by gushie »

htrp wrote: post #5

I'd like to know what exactly was the decisioning around this as it seems like a case study in how not to do product management.

Perhaps Google just wanted to scare businesses on the legacy plan into migrating to the paid service, expecting that those who could afford to pay wouldn't leave it to the last minute.

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Post by Nican »

htrp wrote: post #5

I'd like to know what exactly was the decisioning around this as it seems like a case study in how not to do product management.

Probably trying to get rid of people using their service like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ufa4v4/google_...

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Post by greyface- »

asd123124 wrote: post #2

meh. this is exactly what was always available. The catch is, as soon as you migrate you will lose your gvoice number, since that is not included in the "all free services will be migrated". And then it will be too late to research alternatives as you lost your number and will start paying (and then realize your old number is long gone :)

I just went through the opt-out process and my Google Voice number still works.
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