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Google just pulled the rug right under your feet.

Google just pulled the rug right under your feet.

If you have a free G-suite count from 2006 to 2012, You have to hand some cash over. Google says the free ride is over for many early users of the company’s custom Domain G Suite service. Google Has been offering this service for a long time now, If you got Google workspace recently, it doesn’t affect you at all.

What this service does is, allow you to use Google Apps on a custom domain, allowing you to have a Google email address that ends in any domain that you like. (You can still do that with Google Workspace nowadays) For the first six years, Google made their G suite Service available to people, They made it free for Anyone to use, and many people that sign up for Google service and started using it. Google stopped allowing people to make these kinds of accounts for free in 2012. 

But the veterans who still got this feature for free before 2012 were still using Google G Suite and Google’s Workspace Tools for free until now. Now they have to pay up or they get to throw up. (I know bad joke) So Google was sending out emails to users of the G Suite legacy free edition accounts, telling them they have until July 1st to start paying up. They also set up a support page Highlighting All of the information on how this is going to work. 

What they will do till July is that they will start upgrading these accounts to Paid accounts if they have the correct billing information, If they don’t they will probably suspend these accounts and will give 60 days for the user to pay up, After which these accounts will lose access to core Google services like Gmail and Calendar. This service mainly started In 2006 as “Google Apps for Your domain.”, They did change the name a lot After launching that service, Currently this service is known as “Google Workspace”. 

Cr: PC Mag

Google pulling the plug under these people is rough and it’s not good, Here’s why. So think of it like this, You signed up for Google service many years ago, You trust the company, You’ll like the services that they offer. You hope that these terms of service requirements and policies that they made you sign up to would be the same forever, But now you see it’s not. It’s really sad for Google to just pull the plug and just abandon these users that just signed up to their service many years ago and trusted them with their data, Possibly also being some of the people who did help promote their services and bring them up to these heights that they are at today. 

Well, Google did say that these consumers can use Google Takeout to export some data but If you don’t want to pay, you can build a new consumer Google account, building a new account under a consumer Google account is a lot of work. These accounts that were talking about were mostly functional, so there’s no way to export things like content purchases for books, movies, music, or apps. And if you did use Google Voice, you lose your Google Voice number. If you were using all these services from Google (totally locked in) you probably don’t have any other option other than Paying up to Google. So this makes a pretty clear statement about the fact that Google wants your money and you don’t have any other option than to give it to them. 

Cr: MarketingQueen

OK maybe let’s consider the off chance that you Did not want to give away any money, you would still have to pay some other company for a Domain service. You would have to rebuild your account from scratch on a new Google Consumer account. And knowing how Google did pull the rug right under your feet, Would you ever trust Google with your data and their policies again? 

Hey, if you are still unclear about the status of your Google business account, You can just head over to your billing page at admin.google.com, if you see a message about it being a G Suite legacy edition. You probably should be expecting an email soon detailing how you will be hit by this new change from Google’s end. 

Google just pulled the rug right under your feet.

Google just pulled the rug right under your feet.

If you have a free G-suite count from 2006 to 2012, You have to hand some cash over. Google says the free ride is over for many early users of the company’s custom Domain G Suite service. Google Has been offering this service for a long time now, If you got Google workspace recently, it doesn’t affect you at all.

What this service does is, allow you to use Google Apps on a custom domain, allowing you to have a Google email address that ends in any domain that you like. (You can still do that with Google Workspace nowadays) For the first six years, Google made their G suite Service available to people, They made it free for Anyone to use, and many people that sign up for Google service and started using it. Google stopped allowing people to make these kinds of accounts for free in 2012. 

But the veterans who still got this feature for free before 2012 were still using Google G Suite and Google’s Workspace Tools for free until now. Now they have to pay up or they get to throw up. (I know bad joke) So Google was sending out emails to users of the G Suite legacy free edition accounts, telling them they have until July 1st to start paying up. They also set up a support page Highlighting All of the information on how this is going to work. 

What they will do till July is that they will start upgrading these accounts to Paid accounts if they have the correct billing information, If they don’t they will probably suspend these accounts and will give 60 days for the user to pay up, After which these accounts will lose access to core Google services like Gmail and Calendar. This service mainly started In 2006 as “Google Apps for Your domain.”, They did change the name a lot After launching that service, Currently this service is known as “Google Workspace”. 

Cr: PC Mag

Google pulling the plug under these people is rough and it’s not good, Here’s why. So think of it like this, You signed up for Google service many years ago, You trust the company, You’ll like the services that they offer. You hope that these terms of service requirements and policies that they made you sign up to would be the same forever, But now you see it’s not. It’s really sad for Google to just pull the plug and just abandon these users that just signed up to their service many years ago and trusted them with their data, Possibly also being some of the people who did help promote their services and bring them up to these heights that they are at today. 

Well, Google did say that these consumers can use Google Takeout to export some data but If you don’t want to pay, you can build a new consumer Google account, building a new account under a consumer Google account is a lot of work. These accounts that were talking about were mostly functional, so there’s no way to export things like content purchases for books, movies, music, or apps. And if you did use Google Voice, you lose your Google Voice number. If you were using all these services from Google (totally locked in) you probably don’t have any other option other than Paying up to Google. So this makes a pretty clear statement about the fact that Google wants your money and you don’t have any other option than to give it to them. 

Cr: MarketingQueen

OK maybe let’s consider the off chance that you Did not want to give away any money, you would still have to pay some other company for a Domain service. You would have to rebuild your account from scratch on a new Google Consumer account. And knowing how Google did pull the rug right under your feet, Would you ever trust Google with your data and their policies again? 

Hey, if you are still unclear about the status of your Google business account, You can just head over to your billing page at admin.google.com, if you see a message about it being a G Suite legacy edition. You probably should be expecting an email soon detailing how you will be hit by this new change from Google’s end.