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So long as the accounts aren't Google Apps (GSuite) accounts.

Wherein, only a crippled experience is offered.

I'm so ready to purchase Google Home and a Pixel device, but because I only have Google Apps accounts both are limited in what they can do.

It's great saying "it's the software and not the hardware", but when the software is crippled for a set of users, that's not great.

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I'm slowly moving off Google's platforms after over a decade as a GApps user because of how nothing works for apps users anymore. Even if I could find a gmail address that wouldn't get buried in spam and that I actually liked, I'd have to re-buy all my electronic purchases because they can't be transferred. I might as well re-buy them all on iOS. I've decided that the tight integration google offers is actually an anti-feature if you find yourself outside the "one true use-case."

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