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I find the outrage here quite amazing. This tier has been deprecated for about 10 years already.

Furthermore, the costs to upgrade are not egregious, most everyone here would not have a big problem with it.

Also, it's not like one is losing one's email address -- you control the domain...

I find the inability to transfer my paid Android apps and Youtube purchases to a free Gmail account quite egregious. GSuite already had lesser consumer functionality than regular Gmail accounts, at least let us transfer over our purchases.

It is quite egregious that purchases in app stores cannot be migrated but as far as FAQ states, you don't lose access to that Google account and as such you don't lose access to the purchased content. You just lose access to the email and productivity suite. Think of the scenario where you sign up to a Google account using a Hotmail account: you can make Google apps/content purchases in that account

The FAQ didn't say that when the news first came out; it must have been updated due to backlash.

As a side note, I still haven't gotten an email notification of this days later. If it wasn't for HN I wouldn't have known Google was cancelling legacy G Suite at all.

I find ~$1000 a year for just email accounts for three humans to be egregious (the non-humans are service accounts for things like NAS, printer, or TeamCity/Jenkins).

Wow. Why is it so much?

I saw the $6/month per user plan, which would be $216 for three humans.

Is that a massively discounted (80%) introductory price?

There is a $30/person tier, maybe they are using something that requires that? For myself I'm doing a data export then I'll purge the backup accounts and automated email accounts (for email alerts for self-hosted stuff I have home@mydomain.com). I'll move all my alert sending to AWS SES and get away with $6/mo for myself.

$6 is the real price and not introductory. Even the most expensive standard plan (Business plus) is $18/month and would be $648 year for 3 ppl. Not sure where they got $1000.

the $6/mo isn't discounted. cosmotic has 14+ email accounts for some reason.

You saw correct, but user != human. User = email address. Two NASes, a bug tracker, a CI/CD server, printer, a catch all for either of two domains, it adds up. The combined disk usage is about 3GB, well under the limit for a single user.

I think if you're the kind of person to have an email address on their domain for their printer, you shouldn't feel bad about putting some effort into hosting your email outside of Gmail.

If all you need from GSuite is email, then hosting yourself with https://mailinabox.email/ is an alternative that worked for me, until I realised that https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ on a yearly plan was cheaper than the cheapest hetzner VM I could get for hosting it myself.

Leaving a $6 per user Google service which includes email for a $5 per user Fastmail service which is just email would be an odd cost-saving measure.

The cost are high considering pricing is per user which can add up from something that was free - this is in addition to issues about if you made purchases under accounts for these domains which force an upgrade to keep apps

Well for almost any service, people would rather prefer it to be free than paid, so it's almost an instinctive emotional reaction. Google being huge makes it a particularly easy target.

Also many of us _do_ pay Google quite a bit already, e.g. via YouTube Premium, Google Drive storage space, YouTube Music, Android application purchases/subscriptions, Google hardware purchases, etc..

Some others may even be Google's suppliers, such as operators of Youtube channels, devs on the Play Store, etc. etc.

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