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Five months is not short notice, full stop. Even three months I would have a hard time thinking of any reasonable argument. The length of time you've used a ser
by pc86 5y ago
Five months is not short notice, full stop. Even three months I would have a hard time thinking of any reasonable argument. The length of time you've used a service is irrelevant, the question is how much of a lift is it to switch, and nothing on Google Apps would take you anywhere near 90 days to switch out of. I pay something like $65 or $70/yr for O365 Outlook for a personal domain email, and the email is the only thing I get with that, so this is on the cheaper end to boot. I'm sure you can find custom email domain handling for less though.
> What do you think the perception will be if Google asked them to pony up $60 a year [for Gmail] with 5 months’ notice?
Realistically, I and a lot of other people would think "remind me in 4 months and ~25 days so I can put my credit card in." But it's also not a valid comparison because in Gmail you're the product via advertising. Not the case for Apps.
- Aloha 5y agoI found out because I saw it on HN, this page was posted on googles side, last month. How many people have not even been told yet? I'd be happy to pay them 120 bucks a year for what I'm getting now, 10 email accounts, of which, one sees actual use.
- collaborative 5y agoSame here. Question for anyone that knows: do I have to pay to keep my gmail account that I only use to manage my GCP services? (Auth)
- consp 5y ago> I'd be happy to pay them 120 bucks a year for what I'm getting now The only reason I'm still using it is because account bound purchases are attached to it, otherwise it would have been long gone. As long as there is no way of transferring these anywhere google will not get a single cent.
- jedberg 5y agoFor those of us who have other things to do than migrate email, 5 months is super short. Also, I just found out from this post (ironically the mail they sent me about it went to the low priority box). Luckily I just use it for domain forwarding, so it won't be a huge issue, but I do have some accounts tied to the gmail auth, and untangling that mess will be hard.
- greatpatton 5y agoHow really can you tell me how many project migration project that involve changing a whole basic infrastructure is done in less than 5 months from idea to completion in your company? For a personal project where you may not have a lot of time to invest in this is quite short.