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

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Post by jason0597 »

cpach wrote: post #95
herodoturtle wrote: post #91

What are some (paid) alternatives to using G-Suite for emails? Context: We're a small but relatively old SaaS company. Been happily using G Suite's free tier since day 1 - only for email. This announcement is a tad disappointing, but as other commenters have said, 10 years of a free product is pretty great. We'll likely upgrade to Google's paid tier, but out of curiosity, since we're switching to a paid service, we m…

Fastmail.

Seconding Fastmail. I pay about £45/yr for it and I am very satisfied with all the features it provides. What I most value however is the no-bullshit attitude from the Fastmail team. No random killing of features, no ads, no sudden UI changes.

It might feel simple and old, but I like it simple and old.

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Post by halostatue »

Does anyone have any recommendations on _easy and inexpensive_ ways to migrate an entire family off this (6–7 users)?

The value we get is _not_ worth ~$500 US per year.

I don’t need a full business suite. I mostly need the email and calendar. I’d need to poll other people whether they use Google Drive or not.

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Post by buggeryorkshire »

signal11 wrote: post #76
mig39 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, I'd pay $10 per month for my family. But I'm not paying $50 or $60 per month. The only difference over the free Google Workspaces is the domain name.

A more reasonable approach would’ve been to offer custom domains as part of Google One, whose pricing is far more family-friendly. Eg, Google One provides 100GB of storage (shareable with your family Google accounts) for £16/year. Just let those who want that to link it to custom domains — Apple (iCloud+) and MS (MS 365) already offer this.

Exactly! Or provide a migration path - I went back to a standard gmail account, but the vast majority of my purchases, photos etc are in my old GAFYD account.

Google are going to lose even more goodwill without a migration path.

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

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Post by AndrewDucker »

signal11 wrote: post #76
mig39 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, I'd pay $10 per month for my family. But I'm not paying $50 or $60 per month. The only difference over the free Google Workspaces is the domain name.

A more reasonable approach would’ve been to offer custom domains as part of Google One, whose pricing is far more family-friendly. Eg, Google One provides 100GB of storage (shareable with your family Google accounts) for £16/year. Just let those who want that to link it to custom domains — Apple (iCloud+) and MS (MS 365) already offer this.

That would be perfect for me!

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Post by mpettitt »

samueldr wrote: post #93

I figure all play store purchases and similar content are now taken hostage. Are there any ways to migrate those licenses to a "google account"? Or am I being forced to pay to keep using licenses I already paid for? Oh, and what about my YouTube channel?

Historically, they've not been able to migrate purchases from g suite to Gmail - I've been asking on roughly an annual basis for the last 5 years. I really hope they are going to change that, although I don't buy much anymore thanks to a phone with very little app storage space.

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Post by MPSimmons »

petemir wrote: post #110
herodoturtle wrote: post #91

What are some (paid) alternatives to using G-Suite for emails? Context: We're a small but relatively old SaaS company. Been happily using G Suite's free tier since day 1 - only for email. This announcement is a tad disappointing, but as other commenters have said, 10 years of a free product is pretty great. We'll likely upgrade to Google's paid tier, but out of curiosity, since we're switching to a paid service, we m…

I used zoho for a long time, free tier.

I use Zoho for some personal projects, and enjoy it. It's very full featured with a la carte pricing for additional services.

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

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

I'm actually rather salty about this, as a long-time G suite user: google has considerably degraded the service over the last few years. For example, since a couple of years ago you can't rate apps on Google Play and leave reviews if you use a G Suite account. You also can't use family subscription/space sharing plans, which is especially ironic given that many years ago Google was promoting G suite (or whatever it was called back then) as a way to run your family emails on your own domain.

So the paid account is in several things worse than a free Gmail account.

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

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Post by AndrewDucker »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #45
AndrewDucker wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"After 60 days in suspension, you will no longer have access to Google Workspace core services, such as Gmail, Calendar, and Meet" From https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217

Exactly, since Android and Youtube aren't "workspace core services" (the next sentence after the one you quoted explicitly mentions YT and Photos), your purchases are probably safe past the deadline.

Thank you. I was panicking and clearly not reading clearly.

That "May" still worries me, but hopefully it will still work fine.

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