Then cancel I guess.

They're also bundling AI with their most expensive tiers. More than likely logging 100% of that revenue towards AI to justify this whole boondoggle.

Time to cancel then.

Why do they all act like AI is the holy grail ?? Phone update: here you go, AI. New app: here you go. AI. Websites: here you go. AI.

I've tried it, but AI sucks. All tech questions give non-working answers. Everything else, the AI always agree with you.

Google became prime enshitification too. You may only degoogle.

Wtf is google offering that you're paying for anyway? advertising?

It was always the case that AI would be free or cheap to begin with, and it was always the case that prices will have to rise to cover their costs.

The way now is to cancel subscriptions. Show the companies pushing AI that there is no money to be made in it. Find another service that fits your needs, your ethical minimum, and your budget.

Cancel Google services, even the free ones, and find an alternative you truly like.

The correct and only option is to cancel your plan. Fuck google.

Adobe is doing this too and unless their AI is going to fix the legacy bugs the company clearly doesn't care enough to fix then it's not good enough to cost more.

Lots of victim-blaming in these comments

Since Brian hadn’t already cancelled Google for being awful in every other way, this is exactly the push he needs to stop giving them money and switch to better, cheaper options.

they could make it when you opt out from AI features, you dont need to pay for the AI features. but they are Greedy so they will probably not do that.

The only thing you can do about it is lower my plan?

There was a time when gsuite was a scrappy little service that gave you a serious option that wasn't Micro$oft (which at the time was deep into shady monopolistic practices) at a fraction of the price with replacements that were good enough for most small businesses.

If memory serves, the initial price was around $20 or perhaps $50 a YEAR per user. It was a steal if you were used to paying 10 times that for an annual subscription to Microsoft Office Pro plus needing to support a local NT server running Microsoft Exchange and probably a file server that needed backups and antivirus and on and on.

As more and more businesses have gone SaaS and put the whole thing in the cloud, Google has capitalized on this by cranking up the prices while probably scanning and using our data for their benefits somehow (mostly without adding additional features... Google Sheets is nowhere close to feature parity with Excel).

Thankfully we now have way more FOSS and private cloud solutions such as Nextcloud.

I still can't help but notice, however that feature-wise we really haven't gone anywhere in 25 plus years.

Injecting AI buttons into Google Workspace or whatever they call it now is probably not a feature that too many of their customers are asking for. But in the never ending push to increase revenue, it seems like now we're going to get it and that's the justification for the latest price jump.

The soaking of customers has kicked into second gear. This is a great time to degoogle, as it will only be made more difficult

companies pushing out AI, know they are losing money on AI because it cost more to deploy it, and they arnt generating any profit from it. via the expensive, environmentally unfriendly AI data centers.

Yeah same thing with slack

OBVIOUSLY the ONLY reason why FIRING YOUR WORKFORCE and Replacing it with ONE AI is MORE Expensive is because of TAXES!