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from $1.98 to $288 for google workspace
Google raises G Suite prices: Basic to $6 a month per user, business to $12 a month
AFAIK, O365 pricing hasn't changed, so what's driving this? It's not like G Suite is the 800lb gorilla in cloud collaboration suites.
From an outside perspective, it seems like they're just further undercutting their own product. I'd be curious what the impetus was.
More on reddit.comGoogle hikes G Suite prices for the first time, Business edition now $12 per user per month
More hikes to come, guaranteed. When the get a bit more maturity to compete with persnickety enterprises that have "that one thing" that keeps them on Office, it could easily be 5x what it is today.
More on reddit.comGoogle raises G Suite prices by 20 percent, now costs more than Office 365
Google has a historical reputation for:
raising prices of services, and
suddenly withdrawing services
Putting your dependence on Google has proved to often come back to bite those who do so.
Edit: advocating for Microsoft over Google is the height of stupidity and ignorance. Remember when Microsoft replaced the menu in Microsoft Office products with the utterly idiotic and dysfunctional "Ribbon"? They still haven't rectified that UI disaster. Don't let anybody con you into thinking Microsoft give any consideration to their users. Microsoft prey on loyalty and will hurt anybody who hasn't learned from their history.
More on reddit.comI registered my 3 letter DNS domain over 25 years ago and had my cool email address since then. I got it parked at number of ISPs and for the last 10 or so years at the G-suite - cost ~$10/year for DNS domain hosting. Then came android phone with Google pictures backup. The whole family got their Google ids in my domain and slowly each account needed more then 5GB of disk and we got 100GB each for $1.98/month. That amount of space was good for decades of snapping pictures. I anticipated issues and started evicting all family members out of my domain to gmail.com accounts. I left with the last user this year with its own 100GB limit consuming 50GB and my account with about the same in my 100GB. Then came the email to google workspace admin that our 100GB plans are forcibly discontinued and my two users in the workspace have 30GB each and we are 10GB over the limit. Options - buy Google workspace business standard for $12/user/month with yearly commitment = 12/12/2=$288. So far my cost was $1.98/m and suddenly I had to pay $288 next month. Emailed workspace support to see what happens if I do not pay - the answer - you loose your email address, your family looses their email addresses, you all loose you pictures and email history. Options: First pictures with Google takeout - tried that and downloads went at about 100kB/s - that is 2 weeks of uninterrupted transfer - not doable. Email migration - more or less possible after finding new email hosting and moving all folders by-hand in IMAP client. Now explain all that to your generation-Z users.