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Why would you ever expect a service like this to be free in perpetuity? It's hardly a bait and switch: you never paid for anything, and still got 15+ years of s

• Mindless2112 5y ago
  > 18. Fees. Provided that Google continues to offer the Service to Customer, Google will continue to provide a version of the Service (with substantially the same services as those provided as of the Effective Date) free of charge to Customer; provided that such commitment: (i) does not apply to the Domain Service described in Section 4 above; and (ii) may not apply to new opt-in services added by Google to the Service in the future. For sake of clarity, Google reserves the right to offer a premium version of the Service for a fee. [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110429023658/http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110429023658/http://www.google... Of course, Google later removed this clause from the ToS.
  • jsmith45 5y ago
    Which is weird given that the term that allows them to modify the terms explicitly referenced number 18 as an exception. The only valid argument for it being legal to discontinue this on you is that G-Suite is not GApps, and both are discontinued services anyway, with Google Workspace being the current offering. Which is presumably what they would argue if sued over this.
• coffeefirst 5y ago
  I think we finally learned we shouldn't. Looks suspiciously at Google docs, which is free, rapidly approaching monopoly status if it's not there already, and has no revenue stream for personal users to speak of.