It didn’t help that people’s initial alternatives were to either start paying up or export their data and create a new standard account. In April, Google pushed out the deadline and promised that there will be a facility to allow you to transfer to a free account, but you would have had to join a queue and would have lost access to the ability to use a custom domain. Now, it appears that Google has it figured out: if you’re a business, you’ll have to pay. You don’t have to if you aren’t.
