The cloud is the future, and it's a general improvement over previous mail servers, but that doesn't mean that it's 100% perfect yet, or that those criticisms a

The cloud is the future, and it's a general improvement over previous mail servers, but that doesn't mean that it's 100% perfect yet, or that those criticisms are invalid (well, some of them are). Individuals and institutions are well within the bounds of sanity to say that Google's cloud solution doesn't give exactly what they need, and that in turn pushes Google to improve those cloud solutions (or a competitor to address those issues and snipe the sale).