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The free Google Apps was perfect for families: give each kid a nice kid@familyname.com and no problem with the silly 18 year limit that gmail has. The shared calendars work great in our family too.

It's certainly not worth $50 per year because the little ones get maybe 1 email a month from grandma. Since Google does not allow kids on gmail, where should families go now?

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I never thought about using Google Apps like this. It actually sounds pretty cool to be honest. If my whole family was using it, then I'd probably consider paying $50/year for the service.

But would you pay $50/family-member? (Which is presumably a significantly bigger amount of money.)

Exactly. I am in the same boat. I set up the family with individual, personalized addresses and a series of calendars that can be shared between all of us or just my wife and I. It's convenient, but not $200+/yr convenient. For now, nothing changes but I guess it's time to start looking around for a cheaper alternative should Google decide to kill off the free tier altogether.

Oh yeah, I completely forgot that it was $50/year/person. It would have been nice to have an option for $50/year for an account equivalent to the free version that they're taking away.

Yeah, Same situation here. Set up my family and one for my in-laws, and a few others. Not worth $50 a month per family member.

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