[bubblethink]

As the article mentions, the suit would be about purchases (such as media or apps) tied to the account and identity. If google is forcing users to pay again to use things that users already paid for unless they subscribe to google's new plan, that sounds like a legitimate suit.

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But Google isn't doing that. You aren't losing access to your purchases. So I'm still a little puzzled as to the grounds for this suit.

[ajayyy]

If I want to upgrade only one account, then I can't just "cancel" the service. This means I must delete all other accounts, losing purchases on them. It's an all or nothing thing.

[xoa]

Article seemed much broader complaints than just purchases, though of course it's second hand reporting of whatever the firm is actually going after. Purchases at least might plausibly represent damages. But I'm still extremely skeptical at this point that the whole "license" thing for software is going to switch back in a highly pro-consumer way. It sounds to me more like something that I (and many others) wish was mandated by law, but isn't. Google's ToS looks pretty normal, and everyone buying from them would be governed by it same as all the other software stores.

I wish them luck on that front at least, and morally it's really shitty for Google not to have a transfer mechanism for going between accounts. It is for Apple and everyone else like that too, absolute bullshit. And if it pressures Google to do the right thing even if they'd win then for once that'd be to the good. But while there is lots of outrage legally I'm still really skeptical.

[Animats]

Especially if Google's terms said "Google will provide Customer access to, and the ability to export, the Customer Data for a commercially reasonable period of time".