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My family is on Google Apps free edition. Google has been doing it's best to make my life miserable. It recently killed Google Voice in the free edition, so my
by murgindrag 5y ago
My family is on Google Apps free edition.
Google has been doing it's best to make my life miserable. It recently killed Google Voice in the free edition, so my younger child can no longer get a phone number. With zero warning.
I've been through this each time I've (tried) to use Google for anything critical, so I've stopped.
I mentioned a family example since B2B would be confidential. But I can count at least a half-dozen instances of Google discontinuing something an employer has relied on, leading to a world of pain.
My general cloud policy is AWS, Azure, or anything-but-Google. I have a similar anti-Oracle policy too. Once you're burned a few times, you find that some companies are too expensive to do business with.
- psanford 5y agoGSuite is separate from Google Cloud.
- murgindrag 5y agoNot according to Google: https://cloud.google.com/products/ https://cloud.google.com/products/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace But it's a moot point in either case, if you want long-term support. * Internal corporate lines shift with re-orgs * Culture is shared and common * I've had issues across Google. I listed the ones I can talk about. My lesson, each time, has been: Never Use Google For Business. Ever.
- psanford 5y agoConsidering how many companies use gsuite and are happy with it, I'd say thats a pretty silly lesson.
- murgindrag 5y agoFive out of six people report being happy playing Russian Roulette.