[jstummbillig]

Which it won't. Which is kind of the point the author is making (just instead of "free" in this case it's "3$")

While I do not feel that restricting Gmail and their other data collection tools to paying customers is in Google's long term plan, the potential of random price bumps on a highly integrated, wide ranging and very much closed product experience like the Gsuite certainly creates a problematic power dynamic.