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No. This isn’t about Gmail. It’s about G Suite (formerly Google Apps), which was a business offering from the start. It certainly also contains a mail component

by fuzzy2 5y ago

No. This isn’t about Gmail. It’s about G Suite (formerly Google Apps), which was a business offering from the start. It certainly also contains a mail component based on the same technology, but it’s not Gmail. If your address is somebody@gmail.com, you are not affected.

Macha 5y ago
> which was a business offering from the start It was not exclusively a business offer from 2010 when it was a free individual tier: http://web.archive.org/web/20101224193042/http://www.google.com/apps/ http://web.archive.org/web/20101224193042/http://www.google.... to 2012 when the free edition was marketed as entirely different product ot the business one: http://web.archive.org/web/20120401000138/https://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html http://web.archive.org/web/20120401000138/https://www.google...
waych 5y ago
This is still very disingenuous on Google's part. When many people, myself and family included, first associated our own custom domains with them, there _were_ no "Google Apps" other than gmail. Google Calendar wasn't a thing, neither was Google Docs, Google Sheets, nor Google Meet. Android didn't exist, neither did Fi. Youtube was still its own property with its own separate accounts system. Later on, when they started building new offerings, including those that became known bundled as "Google Apps", they continued to conflate the account usage with these several other services. When they decided this was something worthy of charging, they promised "free legacy" edition use indefinitely to users, calling them pioneers and champions of the service, as a way to thank them for their evangelism. The growth of periphery services continued, and now legacy users are faced with a hostage situation for all their data and purchases associated with their accounts.

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No. This isn’t about Gmail. It’s about G Suite (formerly Google Apps), which was a business offering from the start. It certainly also contains a mail component

by fuzzy2 5y ago

Macha 5y ago
> which was a business offering from the start It was not exclusively a business offer from 2010 when it was a free individual tier: http://web.archive.org/web/20101224193042/http://www.google.com/apps/ http://web.archive.org/web/20101224193042/http://www.google.... to 2012 when the free edition was marketed as entirely different product ot the business one: http://web.archive.org/web/20120401000138/https://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html http://web.archive.org/web/20120401000138/https://www.google...
waych 5y ago
This is still very disingenuous on Google's part. When many people, myself and family included, first associated our own custom domains with them, there _were_ no "Google Apps" other than gmail. Google Calendar wasn't a thing, neither was Google Docs, Google Sheets, nor Google Meet. Android didn't exist, neither did Fi. Youtube was still its own property with its own separate accounts system. Later on, when they started building new offerings, including those that became known bundled as "Google Apps", they continued to conflate the account usage with these several other services. When they decided this was something worthy of charging, they promised "free legacy" edition use indefinitely to users, calling them pioneers and champions of the service, as a way to thank them for their evangelism. The growth of periphery services continued, and now legacy users are faced with a hostage situation for all their data and purchases associated with their accounts.