After leaving its users baffled upon the disappearance of the free version of Google Apps from its main page. The site removed that and asked users to sign up for its Premier version and be charged at $50 a year per user. However Google has stated that the removal of the Standard Version occurred due to its test with different layouts. Sounds quite stupid and I bet the obvious reason is that Google wants more users to pay for it. Anyone who has light to shed upon the matter or is Google planning to begin charging after removing all those Beta labels?
Hrm, they must be “testing different layouts” again, because the references/links to standard edition seem to have been moved completely!
I had to Google “Standard edition” to even find it!
Feels like “deceive and confuse” style marketing to me…
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