[BNM] No more free Google Apps?

[Ian Betteridge]

You spotted that? :)

I like TechCrunch UK, because Mike Butcher does a decent job of getting out
there and covering UK companies, and actually generally does stuff like
check facts. But TechCrunch US is, basically, a vehicle for Mike Arrington
to pursue page views and personal vendetta - see his various stories about
Last.fm "handing over data to the RIAA" (which proved to be total BS).

Google Apps isn't really vanished - it's just harder to find, which is, of
course, entirely different to it being "toast", which is what Arrington
claims. Clearly, they want to "encourage" businesses to take up the paid-for
version, or at least the trial of it. As someone says in the comments:

"There¹s still a free version, you have to sign up for paid and then
downgrade to the free version within 30 days. It¹s easy, I just did it a few
weeks ago for a client."

They'll probably delete that comment though - TC has a nasty habit of
deleting comments which contradict a story or otherwise disagree with MA's
worldview. 

On 7/7/09 11:46, "Chris Billett" <chris at chrisbillett.net> wrote:

> Not a fan of TechCrunch then? I have no idea as I think that's the
> first article I read on there. They don't seem to be lying, though.
> Sure, ask Google... but until then it *has* vanished.