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That may be true of Google search, but Gmail? Or Google Accou ts, for that matter? Almost certainly not. It's far easier to switch from Windows to a Mac or Chro

That may be true of Google search, but Gmail? Or Google Accou ts, for that matter? Almost certainly not. It's far easier to switch from Windows to a Mac or Chromebooks or even Linux than it is to switch from Google and its associated services. Further, because of mobile, there are significantly greater number of Google users than there are Windows users. I guess I am annoyed because as someone who uses Firefox as their primary browser, it always frustrated me that there was t more outrage at Google pushing people away from Firefox. But the moment MS started doing it, it became an outrage.

acomar 10y ago
The account would be by far the hardest thing for me to walk away from. Email is federated and I can export the mail out of Gmail without too much hassle. I don't because I like the interface they provide (for now). Calendar, same deal. I'm there for the convenience, not because another calendar application wouldn't work for me. Accounts would be the hard part because that's my phone login, and there's no standard account service I could migrate to that would give me a functional replacement. The real thing keeping me on the Google platform is the convenience of having these things tied together. But that's not exactly a strong lock for me. I can and do hop services while sacrificing convenience. This might be a stronger hold on others but it's still not Microsoft's you-can't-do-work-in-any-organization level of hold between Office, Windows, Exchange, etc..