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Anyone want to start a betting pool for when Google Workspace is killed?

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497207

'dang:

> All: please don't post shallow, reflexive reactions to a story like this, even if you're sure you're right. Such reactions are 100% predictable (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497174), and predictability hurts more than rightness helps [0]. Predictable discussions are tedious and invariably lead to worse—for example, tedious discussions turn nasty because that's the only thing the mind has left to amuse itself with [1].

IMHO continually calling google (and their employees that are on HN) out on their BS is a net positive even if their BS is starting to get repetitive.

Came here to see a google article's comments, to explicitly see if an extremely predictable comment would still be here as it always is... Alas it is.

First time, shame on you. Second time shame on [censored by dang].

It's a rename of GSuite, so a long time? They'd have to kill Gmail and Docs and like 50 other things first.

They can always kill the free tier like they did for Google Apps for Your Domain's free tier (to which I'm still grandfathered into).

> They can always kill the free tier like they did for Google Apps for Your Domain's free tier (to which I'm still grandfathered into).

So they didn't kill it if they grandfathered everyone in? I'm also on a grandfathered free Google Apps, and i'm happy not having to pay for it.

Google Workspace is just a rebrand of GSuite, right? It's unlikely to be killed off.

It's also a paid service with many customers, so likely to last a long time.

Unlike all the other things Google kills, this one has an actual SLA and a ton of customers with enterprise agreements.

Oh, and it's very interconnected with GCP.

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