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You mean because you think that a service with 3 million paying organizations and the core part of Google's strategy to get greater adoption in enterprise and s
by kondro 10y ago
You mean because you think that a service with 3 million paying organizations and the core part of Google's strategy to get greater adoption in enterprise and schools is going to disappear?
- rocky1138 10y agoIt's possible, but what I'm actually thinking about is more along the lines of lock-in. For instance, Writely, which was the service Google bought to make it into Google Docs, had a migration period where, before you opened a document in Google Docs, you had to convert it to the new format. It's a form of bit rot. Over time, stuff on proprietary services become less and less useful. I tried archiving this Open-RethinkDB meeting notes document using archive.is (a very common archiving service) and you can see the output is broken so you can't archive it: https://archive.is/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1cTqKt1_EBanGoVmYyahdLyDD8dhCa0SdD0CbjbP67f8%2Fedit https://archive.is/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%... Ask: How will we read this in 10 years?