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Not much to add, just yet another corporate blunder for the history books. Reputational damage has been done, folks have left, and they won't get them back, IM
by candiddevmike 4y ago
Not much to add, just yet another corporate blunder for the history books. Reputational damage has been done, folks have left, and they won't get them back, IMO.
- chatmasta 4y ago> folks have left Folks who don't pay them any money but consume gigabytes of storage?
- candiddevmike 4y agoAll part of the same sales funnel
- misnome 4y agoCorrect, folks who help build their ecosystem brand for free.
- bmarquez 4y agoReminds me of the Google G Suite Legacy debacle from last year. Yeah they reversed their decision, but others like myself switched to paid competitors and won't be using Google services again.
- politelemon 4y agoThat was a deliberate to get free (legacy) users to move off. It's not an unknown tactic.
- eertami 4y agoOh wow, I didn't even realise they had reversed the decision, I moved my email domains to a different setup with the Cloudflare email routing and never even heard about the reversal. Although, I just went to try and click the 'Confirm account for personal use' button and it gives me the error 'Your account is ineligible to switch to the no-cost option because you first need to upgrade to Google Workspace Business Starter. Then do this process again.' Which isn't particularly obvious what they want, are they asking me to pay so that I can click the button? Who knows.