Update 2: free Prime promo and upgrade paths

I am a pro user w/ a regular Gmail and a Gapp (work) account, so if I read this correctly my personal Gmail can be upgraded to Prime for “free” and the Gapp (work) for a 30% discount?

I have all my employees paying, so I do like this program but I will tell you this smells of a Ringplus scam and TBH I don’t know how you can fund development w/ a 1 time charge.

As you probably know Ringplus started out free then continuously changed their plans, got people to sign up for “membership” – like Prime, then screwed them, and then went to a freemium model giving folks w/ membership discounts. And all along the way the CEO made promises and the like and then backed out on them.

So my point is (I work for a software company), I simply do not see how this will fund future product development unless you are:

  1. Know that google or some other 3rd party will make the multi-account functionality of your product obsolete
  2. You are trying to get as much money as possible, and then either go out of business, seriously ramp down support/development, or come up with some new scheme to charge customers.
  3. You start (or already have) been data mining and reselling habits since you are in the data path (quite alarming)
  4. You start barraging w/ ads.

Personally I don’t want any of them and as a business user I have grave concerns when a pricing model changes like this, because to me stability and confidentiality are top of mind.

Just saying, I have hundreds of dollars on my team per year coming to you, so you can understand as a business customer I am shaky and your product saves my team from unending aggravation w/ Gdrive crappy software.

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