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There are some services that are so worth the money that I am happy to pay for: Office 365, Dropbox, and GSuite.

I am as much of a cheapskate as the next guy, but it makes sense to pay for services that help get work done and/or make life easier.

I am curious if Microsoft is paying Apple a 30% cut, or if they got a better deal.

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How many licenses of GSuite to you maintain? One license, $5 / month. Seems reasonable.

I have six family members. $360 / year for GSuite, that's untenable to me.

I paid $400+ a year for personal accounts since GSuite went premium. I just switched over to another provider because I reached a tipping point of not being able to tolerate GSuite support - it is horrible. horrible. horrible. horrible. Took 1+ and 3+ weeks to resolve the only two minor issues we've ever had.

Support replies were a series of unrelated prefilled replies, it seems whoever is on the other end is just keen to reply with whatever asap (phone is no better)

I don't think i've ever given Microsoft a dollar in my life but i'm strongly considering purchasing their email hosting based on feedback from companies I know using it. I don't mind paying for things, I hate paying for things and then not getting what was advertised.

Have you checked out Fastmail? Whilst I use and pay for Office 365 for business, my personal email is on Fastmail (migrated from Gmail after a decade with them) and very happy with it.

$5/user/month with a custom domain. It's the same pricing as GSuite. Just doesn't reflect the right price point for me.

By the way, how is Fastmail's spam filtering? Gmail/GSuite is probably the best, and one of my concerns would be going back to the days of seeing enlargement products in my inbox.

They thrown in 'not data mining you' for free though

No data mining with G Suite.

https://storage.googleapis.com/gfw-touched-accounts-pdfs/goo...

The specific claim, unless I missed it, is no data collection for advertising purposes (page 12 and also in their other privacy policy online). That doesn't stop them from other uses of the data. Microsoft makes a similar claim with some of its telemetry. Or did I miss something? It was a long PDF, I just skimmed it

Yeah we pay $50 per year per user (two of us) on our custom family domain.

Spam filtering is good, don't get any spam in Inbox, occasionally get legit incorrectly classified as spam. Training the model seems to prevent future occurrences pretty quickly.

I like the aliases that let you setup groups (which GSuite obviously also has) - all our bills and stuff get emailed to a group that includes the two of us.

We weren't on GSuite before this but individual Gmail, so we didn't have those group features.

In terms of $5/month you get more through GSuite (docs, drive etc), but I would prefer to be free of Google and Fastmail (for us) filled the need perfectly, and is something I'm more than happy to pay for given their attention to privacy, security and being the customer rather than the product.

I’m a subscriber to Office 365 and would use their mail service (whatever it’s called these days) but... I can’t bring my email address - which is on a grandfathered free ‘Google apps for your domain’ account. It’s a bit silly, considering I’m paying for this and can’t use it, but am getting Google’s email hosting and spam filter for free.

Is it really worth paying for Dropbox when you already have cloud storage bundled in with Office 365 (one drive) and GSuit (GDrive?)

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