Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by pc86 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:41PM
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You never get to the point of making $19 billion a quarter if you aren't constantly looking for ways to optimize pricing and make a little more money. And at the individual level, $60 million is $60 million. What percentage of the bottom line it is is much less relevant than what percentage of your team's top line revenue it is and how it impacts your ability to get a bonus, increase headcount, get a promotion, etc.
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by smilekzs on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:39PM
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The PR backlash costs worth way more than what this would have saved.
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by playeren on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:11AM
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Their main customer base (by orders of magnitude) are advertisers. I'm not convinced that this move will change anything at all in those relationships.
I, myself, am a 'victim' of this, with two personal accounts grandfathered in from the good ol' days. I'm moving both of them to Protonmail.
Looking at it another way, Google's most recent net profit is $18.94 billion per quarter.
I have no idea but if there are 1 million G Suite Legacy accounts out there at $60 per year. That would increase their revenue $60 million per year.
So just assume all that revenue is net profit which would make their quarterly net profit go from $18.94 billion to $18.955 billion for the low cost of pissing off 1 million people.