Trying to add more than 5 family members to Google family

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13 pointsduncan_bayne5 comments

The 5 isn't arbitrary. It's a number engineered to limit the shareability of subscriptions and purchases to increase revenue and reduce abuse.

That's probably another good reason why a company like google should be broken up. Nobody cares that spotify limits your family at 5 people, that's just your music. But not being able to include everyone in a google family will become a problem as more and more features become gated by that.

that's hilarious! 'alienating the middle east'. is this real?

I assume so, and it's a lot less hilarious if you have a large family.

I'm not from the Middle East but my nuclear family is brushing up against the limit, and I have relatives whose families exceed it.

It just seems so ridiculously arbitrary for Google (on any Product Manager) to declare that, as far as their products are concerned, a family contains at most six people.

i am sorry. you are right.

Well Google and Apple could turn on Location and IP tracking to make sure the family is in one household, and allow additional payment to increase family members. But than the world would cry foul and some how break the privacy rule ( which seems to mean a different thing to different people )

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