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Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by warkdarrior »

xahrepap wrote: post #76
rhaway84773 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For monthly, saas, products why would the price increase “to reflect value added to our products” since it’s a recurring fee it should always pay for new features to be added. Without commenting on the specific of Google Workspace, in general, this makes sense if you’ve added a bunch of additional value. In fact, ironically, Slack’s antitrust complaint against MS re: Teams is precisely the fact that they bundled al…

I think what your parent is saying (at least how I read it) is in the context of comparing it to boxed software. I buy MS Word 1995 for $100. Then they release added value and box it up as MS Word 1998 for $100. Then they release added value and box it up as MS Word 2000 for $100. Now we pay $10/mo. If you average it out, it's not too different than just paying for the added value as it grows. And worse, if I cancel…

You also pay for hosting of that software service (availability, security, etc.).

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

#92

Post by MisterPea »

dotBen wrote: post #77

Even at twice the price, the value of the collective Google Workspaces suite for most people is a no brainer. I pay more per month to the calendar scheduling SaaS provider I use than I do to Google - who provide the calendar plus email, drive, docs, meet, etc. An important lesson here for founders is price anchoring. Google is in a tough place because the prices are anchored to historically low amounts - they're incr…

Why pay so much for a calendar scheduling service?

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by georgemcbay »

ktross wrote: post #63
mrbonner wrote: post #59

It is time for me to evaluate my custom domain email service. I had the original/free Google workspace with custom email domain. In 2021, they charged me $6/month to keep that option afloat. To be honest, I think $6/month is a bit expensive for just email usage. I don't even use any other stuff coming with Suite. My question for this group: how do I get out of this without losing my email domain?

You could sign up for fastmail and point your domains DNS records there. It's $5/mo and they make it easy to import your existing emails from gmail. I switched to them when Google stopped offering free workspace accounts. It's been great so far.

I also switched to fastmail with my own domain and also have had a great experience with it. It was super simple to import my data over from google and it's all still there and searchable.

For me it wasn't really anything to do with the cost, just a token decision to opt out of the google hegemony over email to some degree. Been well over a year at this point and I don't miss gmail at all.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by btian »

MisterPea wrote: post #92
dotBen wrote: post #77

Even at twice the price, the value of the collective Google Workspaces suite for most people is a no brainer. I pay more per month to the calendar scheduling SaaS provider I use than I do to Google - who provide the calendar plus email, drive, docs, meet, etc. An important lesson here for founders is price anchoring. Google is in a tough place because the prices are anchored to historically low amounts - they're incr…

Why pay so much for a calendar scheduling service?

Probably because G Workspace is comically cheap.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by lawgimenez »

AJRF wrote: post #82
mrbonner wrote: post #59

It is time for me to evaluate my custom domain email service. I had the original/free Google workspace with custom email domain. In 2021, they charged me $6/month to keep that option afloat. To be honest, I think $6/month is a bit expensive for just email usage. I don't even use any other stuff coming with Suite. My question for this group: how do I get out of this without losing my email domain?

One thing that people are surprised by when I tell them is; Apple iCloud+ will let you have up to five custom domains, with up to three personalised email addresses per domain for just 0.79p (UK) If you are just looking for email, that's shockingly good value. You do get iCloud Docs with that too, but that product offering is a bit naff and iOS/iPadOS/macOS only. If you are using Apple products, it's very good value…

I’m on iCloud+ too with customized email domain setup for each of my family.

On Linux I would just go to icloud.com to access my Apple email, notes, etc. I wish there was an easier solution but iCloud access on Linux sucks.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by prepend »

warkdarrior wrote: post #91
xahrepap wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think what your parent is saying (at least how I read it) is in the context of comparing it to boxed software. I buy MS Word 1995 for $100. Then they release added value and box it up as MS Word 1998 for $100. Then they release added value and box it up as MS Word 2000 for $100. Now we pay $10/mo. If you average it out, it's not too different than just paying for the added value as it grows. And worse, if I cancel…

You also pay for hosting of that software service (availability, security, etc.).

There should be a host component and a build component. Unless they increase the rate of development (they didn’t) it shouldn’t be a reason for a price increase.

This seems like they are using a marketing plan from the boxed software days to justify a price increase today. I wonder if there’s a 90s Microsoft person who was tasked with a back strategy after Google decided they wanted higher profits or slower growth or some reason that has nothing to do with reflecting value.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by Danieru »

mrbonner wrote: post #59

It is time for me to evaluate my custom domain email service. I had the original/free Google workspace with custom email domain. In 2021, they charged me $6/month to keep that option afloat. To be honest, I think $6/month is a bit expensive for just email usage. I don't even use any other stuff coming with Suite. My question for this group: how do I get out of this without losing my email domain?

I migrated to Midagu and am very happy with it. It has a nice logical volume strata pricing model which works perfect for a small company like us.

Granted we're a bootstrapped business so our economics are important to me. Workspaces was just too expensive for the service provided. Microsoft Office was cheaper back in it's hayday.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by MisterPea »

btian wrote: post #95
MisterPea wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why pay so much for a calendar scheduling service?

Probably because G Workspace is comically cheap.

The whole industry of calendar scheduling boggles my mind. It seems Google/Microsoft consider them small fish to fry, but Calendly is a multi-billion dollar company

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by CharlesW »

AJRF wrote: post #82
mrbonner wrote: post #59

It is time for me to evaluate my custom domain email service. I had the original/free Google workspace with custom email domain. In 2021, they charged me $6/month to keep that option afloat. To be honest, I think $6/month is a bit expensive for just email usage. I don't even use any other stuff coming with Suite. My question for this group: how do I get out of this without losing my email domain?

One thing that people are surprised by when I tell them is; Apple iCloud+ will let you have up to five custom domains, with up to three personalised email addresses per domain for just 0.79p (UK) If you are just looking for email, that's shockingly good value. You do get iCloud Docs with that too, but that product offering is a bit naff and iOS/iPadOS/macOS only. If you are using Apple products, it's very good value…

> Apple iCloud+ will let you have up to five custom domains, with up to three personalised email addresses per domain for just 0.79p (UK)

I migrated from Google Workspace when Apple added custom domain support. The email migration itself was simple — I used `imapsync` and followed the instructions below. It's been several months since the move, and I can report that it all "just works".

https://blah.cloud/miscellaneous/migrating-google-workspaces...

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