> As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers.
10 years of a free product is not bad
10 years of a free product is not bad
But now I'll lose access to any purchases on my phone, my Youtube purchases and history, I need to create a new account for my phone, etc....
Android apps will be a pain. I have apps that are no longer sold, or am grandfathered on a premium 1 time purchase for stuff that is now subscription based, etc.
Could be. I'd have to figure this out, thanks for the heads up.
> You can move your channel and its videos over from one account to another. Note that if your account is a supervised account or a work or school account, you cannot move your channel.
So it depends if g suite is considered a "work or school" account or not.
That product is still free at other providers. We'll just be moving.
For me that's the last nail in the coffin, will make sure in the future to keep away from all Google product (private or professional).
What is strange is how in a few year Google went from the cool company where everybody wanted to work to something that can almost be compared to a tobacco company.
All the one's I'm seeing are paid options, some of which get very expensive if you have more than just one or two users.
It will definitely hurt us financially as we have around 10 domains with 20 email ids. We can't delete them due to older emails but can't complain as Google did allowed free account for 10 years.
I hope there is a service Migration of emails from Gmail to other platforms.
Your current G Suite legacy free subscriptions and related services will continue to function as they do today, until you self-upgrade or we upgrade you automatically to one of the new editions."
That "until" is really ambiguous - does that mean services terminate when you self-upgrade?
If you cancel it, your account is converted to an ordinary external domain Google account AFAICT. You need to migrate your email out of Google/Gmail to get service messages over email, but you can continue using your Google account as an ordinary Gmail-like account - only difference being that you handle your email yourself (because you didn't want to pay Google to do it for you.)
Just set up your MX with some other service if you are not happy with Gmail, or start running your own SMTP server.
Now, the service is the product. Only since it's Googs, the user will still be a product too. Googs needs to re-watch the Seinfeld episode on double dipping.