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Yes, the announcement is corporate doublespeak. No, I don't mind the end of free Google Apps. I use Google Apps for my business for five years, and frankly, it
by stevoski 14y ago
Yes, the announcement is corporate doublespeak.
No, I don't mind the end of free Google Apps. I use Google Apps for my business for five years, and frankly, it is mind-boggling what they have given me for free. Luckily us existing users still get the free service, but if I had to pay US$50 per year per user, I would still consider it exceptional value.
US$50 per year for a set of critical, heavily-used services is an inconsequential amount for all but the most penny-pinching operation.
- indiecore 14y agoand they lost a lot of people who are pinching pennies when they start but would be hooked into the system by the time they needed the upgrade.
- adrianm 14y agoI would have (read: I did) assume that, but do we really have any data on whether or not this actually was the case? Google presumably considered this and made a decision based on the data available to them. Now that this decision was announced, it seems that this assumption is false. Google must not be hooking nearly enough businesses into using this system for money or they would not have made this decision. Of course, this assumes Google Apps is run by rational people.