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You just point the MX records of your custom domain to a different provider, you mean? The vast majority of Gmail users do not have custom domains, and directly

• kelnos 3y ago
  The thing is, Google Workspaces base plan is only $6/user/mo. If you value your email (which, as annoying as email can be, you should, since it's often the key to all of your other online accounts), $6/mo is... intensely reasonable. (And you get other stuff with that too; it's not just email.) Unfortunately, we've been trained to expect that everything on the internet is free nowadays, so even that sounds like an expensive service. But agreed, most people just have @gmail.com addresses, and thus no portability. Google of course knows this, and that's by design. I wish we had a popular email service that would register a domain for you as a part of the signup flow. That would be pretty cool.
  • tomjen3 3y ago
    You can host them at apple if you have iCloud+, the cheapest of which is 0.99. MS charges you about half of Gmail (through resellers) if you don't want the office programs installed and about the same if you want that included. Zoho mail is about 3 dollars a month and then there is that service I can't remember (just email?) that will let you host the entire domain for 10 a year. Neither of which is very expensive.
• antiterra 3y ago
  Yes, that’s the nature of the meter — it’s ‘how screwed are you’ not ‘how screwed is everyone who uses a particular thing?’