Google sued after pulling free Workspace tools for early adopters

Date:
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 19:03:07 +0000

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Google facing legal action for braking a promise of free, lifelong access to its Workspace suite.

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Google is facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit after allegedly going back on its promise to provide lifetime access to its early Workspace subscriptions free of charge.

The Stratford Company LLC, acting on behalf of early adopters, is suing
Google parent company Alphabet for a sum of more than $5 million for luring early Workspace adopters to use its services during the initial testing
stages in return for free lifelong access.

Initially known as Google Apps, then G Suite, Google Workspace includes many of the free services with which we are familiar today, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, as well as paid extras like cloud storage via Google Drive and custom email domain support. Google Workspace slammed

Google started charging customers $12 per month for the premium version of
its business-oriented suite in 2012. However, earlier this year, the tech giant told its early adopters (to whom it had promised free access for as
long as the services are offered), known as legacy users, that they would
soon be charged to use the services, too.

Part of the complaint, filed in a San Jose federal court, reads: Googles abandonment of the credo dont be evil is well-illustrated in this case. Read more

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Google, as the better part of a conglomerate worth nearly two trillion dollars, breaks a promise to loyal customers who helped Google develop a profitable product, in order to pad its already grossly outsized profits," it adds.

The firm is seeking class-action status for the users it represents. Damages are to be determined at trial, but it is thought that the sum will amount to more than $5 million (more than 4.1 million).

The case at hand is: Google LLC v. The Stratford Company LLC, 5:22-cv-4547,
US District Court, Northern District of California. Consider one of the best online collaboration tools

Via Bloomberg



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