Sorry about the edit... I decided refuting the arithmetic was a fairly blunt way to deal with the debate. I moved from an older (50 user) free GApps account to

Sorry about the edit... I decided refuting the arithmetic was a fairly blunt way to deal with the debate. I moved from an older (50 user) free GApps account to Fastmail. If I had been paying I would have saved $150/year, but just saving my time, and avoiding the now shitty experience of managing my mail via Gmail, was well worth the cost to me. Early on Gmails web interface was a revelation, now it's just below standard... and any momentum from their multi-GB storage giveaway doesn't cut it anymore. I think the final nail was one of principle... Google just aren't interested in offering premium personal mail services, like own-domain hosting to families or individuals. Using free GApps made me feel like an unwanted freeloader... a second-class citizen.