Over a decade ago, I pointed out that as Google kept trying to worm its way deeper into our lives, a key Achilles’ heel was its basically non-existent customer service and unwillingness to ev…
Considering that even with one of the cheapest storage services, B2, 250ishTB is about $1500/month(that’s more than $5500/m in S3!) whereas Gsuite seems to be about less than $200, I would’ve never guessed that I could use it as is for a long time.
Extremely shitty of google to do this though. What a shame.
I was just checking and it’s $1,600/mo to transfer it over to wasabi but how long would that take? I really hope Google does the right thing but that is not their MO these days.
It’s not a guess if they literally tell you that’s the deal. I understand all of us are big Google skeptics here, but most people operate under the assumption that if a service exists and they pay for it for years with zero issues, they will continue to get that service as long as they keep paying.
Totally agree. Sorry for the terse comment before, I just find a lot of people on the fediverse have this tendency to act as if consumers deserve to be taken advantage of. It’s very odd given how angry they get about companies, especially tech companies, exploiting people. It just doesn’t make sense to me. How can you be mad a company is making victims of people while also blaming the victims?
Anyway, I get you were probably not doing that, and I am just grinding my ax a little bit. Sorry again!
Considering that even with one of the cheapest storage services, B2, 250ishTB is about $1500/month(that’s more than $5500/m in S3!) whereas Gsuite seems to be about less than $200, I would’ve never guessed that I could use it as is for a long time.
Extremely shitty of google to do this though. What a shame.
I was just checking and it’s $1,600/mo to transfer it over to wasabi but how long would that take? I really hope Google does the right thing but that is not their MO these days.
It’s not a guess if they literally tell you that’s the deal. I understand all of us are big Google skeptics here, but most people operate under the assumption that if a service exists and they pay for it for years with zero issues, they will continue to get that service as long as they keep paying.
Yeah. I think some kind of regulations regarding the whole unlimited bs are long overdue. No company can actually deliver unlimited anything.
Totally agree. Sorry for the terse comment before, I just find a lot of people on the fediverse have this tendency to act as if consumers deserve to be taken advantage of. It’s very odd given how angry they get about companies, especially tech companies, exploiting people. It just doesn’t make sense to me. How can you be mad a company is making victims of people while also blaming the victims?
Anyway, I get you were probably not doing that, and I am just grinding my ax a little bit. Sorry again!
We’re all mega nerds. We shoulda coulda woulda on anything computer stuff.
Have a nice day 👍