Unfortunately they will have to lose 35% of their customers before that 35% increase in price hurts them. Maybe they lose 10% at worst, they’ll still be making significantly more than previously.
also a realistic course is people leave for a competitor service, the competitor starts to succeed, ah google bought it (or Facebook or w/e)
The main competitor for Google Workspace is Microsoft 365 lol
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Don’t need to apologise! Perfectly good correction. Point stays the same though they’re gonna make way more and the money they make from making more will purchase whatever competitor people run away to.
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It’s actually the strongest argument for supporting free solutions and alternatives. You literally can not escape the monopolists by going to another private company because the monopolist will simply buy it and you’re back to running away to another private company. The only longterm solution is open software alternatives.
The only thing I haven’t seen this happen with in tech yet is chat apps.
looking to tackle self-hosting in a lot of areas but email? email is such a pain in the ass
I think the only reason other solutions aren’t great is because it’s really fucking boring and not sexy at all, “What’s your project?” “Email” “Oh”
Google is probably happy to lose them if they’re small enough to be able to migrate off Workspace in less than a month, tbh.
Casey’s a game developer and (although he would probably be reluctant to accept the label) a tech influencer. Their finance department wouldn’t take a second look at their game studio jumping ship, but their devrel team may have some interest in the discourse here, especially if he talks about it on his podcast with Primeagen.
I copped this as well and it’s made me decide to say fuck it and tinker around with having my work email in Thunderbird instead.
inb4 migrates to azure and has this happen again
it already happened for Office365 family plans lol
the main diff being that the upcharge was technically optional, but you were automatically opted into it.
Been following Casey Muratori for years. He’s amazing. His rants about Visual Studio are especially relatable
Yeah Casey rules and as a genuinely smart tech guy I appreciate that he almost entirely stays away from talking about politics (because he’s usually wrong).
