<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">Here's the relevant FAQ for what happened with Google Apps Standard Edition as it was formerly called:</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><a href="http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2855120">http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2855120</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">Grandfathered in = in for good. Otherwise, the free gravy supply has been shut off.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">I am a lucky person -- I have the free edition, and 100 users capability in my domain. I got in /very/ early when it was "just" email before the rest of the apps came along, hence, my "hosted email" was later upgraded to Apps, and I kept my 100 user limit.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">I'll be keen to hear if anyone brings up a competing service that's "free" to a handful of users like "Standard Edition" was previously.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Greg Sidelinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gate@ilive4code.net" target="_blank">gate@ilive4code.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I also just found out they dropped exchange support for new apple devices. They want you to use their crappy gmail app instead. I say crappy as I can't read half of <span></span>my emails on my phone with out zooming in. Hell 1/4 of the screen is dedicated to a next button instead of reading real-estate. Over the last year they have dropped over 1/2 of their services I actually used on a daily basis. I'm down to gmail and search now days. And if I ever get off my lazy ass I'm moving my personal domain away from them. <br>
<br>Greg<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br>On Thursday, July 11, 2013, Rick Troth wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This may be old news to some (and others might not care). Google has<br>
dispensed with their free offering of what is now called "Apps for<br>
Business". It happened circa January of this year. The only plan<br>
available is one of several pay-for plans.<br>
<br>
Frankly, I think their price is quite reasonable for small biz: $5/user<br>
for GMail, calendar, IM, contacts, and a highly interactive document<br>
sharing service. Many biz, large and small, pay more for less. But I<br>
whine because I am not a small biz. I'm a hobbyist with a home domain.<br>
So the "no charge for up to 10 users" would seem to fit ... hobbyists<br>
could go gratis while actual small biz (likely to have more than 10<br>
users) would pay actual dollars (and get actual attention when they have<br>
actual problems).<br>
<br>
What happened is that my son got a domain a few weeks ago. We set up<br>
DNS and web, enrolled in "Apps for Business" (not finding the explicitly<br>
free "Apps for Domains"), then pointed MX at Googoo. Worked. The<br>
mailbox is the biggest thing he got out of that. Their spam filtering<br>
and web interface are fabulous. But now we find it suspended.<br>
<br>
So ... mostly just to let the rest of you know.<br>
<br>
If you're already "in" then you may be grandfathered. This note comes<br>
to you by way of the previously instantiated "Apps for Domains" for<br>
<a href="http://casita.net" target="_blank">casita.net</a>, which Skippy turned me onto a couple years ago. So far, my<br>
services from Google have not been suspended.<br>
<br>
I would gladly pay real dollars for these kinds of things. But what is<br>
a low price for actual business is a high price for home use. It seems<br>
we have lost some nice middle ground.<br>
<br>
-- R; <><<br>
<br>
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