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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by ryandvm on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:08PM (#30027470)
Same boat except I have about a dozen family members. My annual bill is going to go from $0 to $61212. That seems like a pretty big jump considering that if we all just had regular non-commercial Google accounts, the total cost would be $0. I'm not opposed to paying something, but $864 per year just to have a vanity domain is a bit much.

It seems like Google really ought to consider adding a family plan SKU to Google Workspace, disabling all the business features, and charging $75/year for a whole domain.

Instead, the current path is going to piss off thousands of their most loyal power users as they force these graybeards to manually help migrate all their family members from the Legacy GSuite plans to vanilla Google accounts. Or worse, it's going to piss off all the family members that end up losing access to every email, photo, app, and doc they've acquired over the past decade on their now defunct legacy account.

Christ, does nobody at Google give a shit about goodwill?

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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by brechmos on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:10PM (#30029300)
I also have the $99 / year Microsoft 365. This gives you 5 people, 1Tb of space each, email, calendar, etc. $99 per year. Not per person per year. Just per year.

Sadly there are too many things I have tied to Google that I am not sure if I can make that switch to Microsoft. But it is getting more and more tempting.

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Re:G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1,... by YaraAllen on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:46PM (#30028105)
> Christ, does nobody at Google give a shit about goodwill?

I am holding out a tiny hope that maybe if there is enough negative PR, Google will create a cheaper plan or perhaps provide an off ramp for people that want to switch/migrate to consumer accounts.

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