The lack of clarity is yet another irritating part of this. Like others, still no email for me. I've been reading that there will be a more gentle onramp than t

The lack of clarity is yet another irritating part of this. Like others, still no email for me. I've been reading that there will be a more gentle onramp than this seems to indicate, where those who "transition to paid" get one more free year, and then another year at 50% off. So anyone really tied in who wants more time before jumping ship that could be useful, but it'd be nice to actually have that all laid out officially in a mail. So would an official transition method to personal. I submitted a link to https://www.39digits.com/migrate-g-suite-account-to-a-personal-google-account https://www.39digits.com/migrate-g-suite-account-to-a-person... (2017) with a few notes [0] earlier today which seems to still mostly work. But the lack of purchase transfer means the pain will vary massively. Those of us who only used it as one of many possible custom domain email systems purely for old school client based IMAP email of course have the easiest smoothest pass. Jumping to something nice like MXroute or Migadu pretty much covers it (though I wish they had some sort of burst send pricing or option) and is smooth enough. Calendars and the like aren't bad either, and there are plenty of generic online storage options. At the opposite end are those with thousands of dollars or more in purchases tied to the account, or massive use of other services. As of right now they seem really screwed. As much as anything the sheer lazy shoddiness of this change is the irritating bit. I don't begrudge them a bit charging for a decent service, or cancelling offerings even. It might be dirt cheap but it's not free and they're offering some value. Ideally they'd have a basic paid tier for non-money making usage, and indeed that is missed in the brave new subscription world in general, but it is what it is. But it's just plain unprofessional not to even notify broad swaths of people, to leave open all sorts of questions about details, to not have any kind of purchase transfer for those who depended upon it, etc. The should be law mandating the ability to transfer purchases between accounts within the same service as a basic minimal floor, and that at least is not a unique Google problem in the slightest. Seems more the rule than the exception for digital software stores of all kinds. Going between services is reasonably more complicated, but within the same one shouldn't be impossible. ---- 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023769