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> Essentials, which has no email. This is an incredibly helpful comment but I can't be the only person who finds the idea of such a service, branded "Essential

> Essentials, which has no email. This is an incredibly helpful comment but I can't be the only person who finds the idea of such a service, branded "Essentials", that doesn't include email rather baffling.

ErikCorry 4y ago
Yeah the new Ford "Essentials" has no wheels or engine, but otherwise it's a great car with a cool name.
- unwind 4y ago
  As a non-business outsider it's even weirder than that, since Gmail is free for regular "consumer" use. It's as if Ford gave away ad-plastered pedal cars for free, but if you pay them for a business car they give you a plain-painted (I just guess paid services are ad-free) car with no wheels or engine. Weird segmentation, and totally unexpected, I can easily understand how OP made this mistake.
- hgsgm 4y ago
nolok 4y ago
Yes and no, it's not a google services essentials but a google workspace aka sheets/calc/drive, account. You might think "but email are essentials for work" and I would agree if not for the fact that it's especially branded as a way to use google work tools without uprooting yourselves out of your own current email and force you to use google mail. From the product page, second sentence: Create a Google Workspace account with your current work email address and start using the tools you know and love today with your team. And at the top are the google logo of the services covered, and while google current logos sucks you can't mistake gmail redish blob. I'm not saying this is great, or that you should have paid more attention or anything like that, but that such an offer actually makes sense, even though 1 - it suffers from google branding issue where people see "google" not "workspace" because they change it every couple weeks anyway 2 - it should check if you already have an active gmail on that account and let you know you're probably doing something you don't want to
- eduction 4y ago
  > Create a Google Workspace account with your current work email address I think you’ve just shown us why Google is at fault here rather than OP: OP’s current email address was at Google. The sentence is inaccurate in such situations. (And before anyone says I’m being pedantic, consider that we were fully ready to be pedantic in the other direction, in Google’s favor.)
- mcv 4y ago
  > it's especially branded as a way to use google work tools without uprooting yourselves out of your own current email and force you to use google mail. But their current email was GMail, and now they're uprooted from that.
cube00 4y ago
That's because email is open and we can't have that in the Google walled garden, but if you insist you can pay extra for the privilege.

ErikCorry 4y ago

Yeah the new Ford "Essentials" has no wheels or engine, but otherwise it's a great car with a cool name.

unwind 4y ago
As a non-business outsider it's even weirder than that, since Gmail is free for regular "consumer" use. It's as if Ford gave away ad-plastered pedal cars for free, but if you pay them for a business car they give you a plain-painted (I just guess paid services are ad-free) car with no wheels or engine. Weird segmentation, and totally unexpected, I can easily understand how OP made this mistake.
hgsgm 4y ago

nolok 4y ago

Yes and no, it's not a google services essentials but a google workspace aka sheets/calc/drive, account. You might think "but email are essentials for work" and I would agree if not for the fact that it's especially branded as a way to use google work tools without uprooting yourselves out of your own current email and force you to use google mail. From the product page, second sentence: Create a Google Workspace account with your current work email address and start using the tools you know and love today with your team. And at the top are the google logo of the services covered, and while google current logos sucks you can't mistake gmail redish blob. I'm not saying this is great, or that you should have paid more attention or anything like that, but that such an offer actually makes sense, even though 1 - it suffers from google branding issue where people see "google" not "workspace" because they change it every couple weeks anyway 2 - it should check if you already have an active gmail on that account and let you know you're probably doing something you don't want to

eduction 4y ago
> Create a Google Workspace account with your current work email address I think you’ve just shown us why Google is at fault here rather than OP: OP’s current email address was at Google. The sentence is inaccurate in such situations. (And before anyone says I’m being pedantic, consider that we were fully ready to be pedantic in the other direction, in Google’s favor.)
mcv 4y ago
> it's especially branded as a way to use google work tools without uprooting yourselves out of your own current email and force you to use google mail. But their current email was GMail, and now they're uprooted from that.

cube00 4y ago

That's because email is open and we can't have that in the Google walled garden, but if you insist you can pay extra for the privilege.