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Are you actually locked into those services? I decided to switch away from Google when they mixed up my inbox with someone else's and started sending my email t
by freehunter 9y ago
Are you actually locked into those services? I decided to switch away from Google when they mixed up my inbox with someone else's and started sending my email to someone who quickly used the mistake to issue password resets on many of my accounts, and it was easier than I thought.
With Gmail, I just forward my mail to my Outlook.com account, and I switched my email address on as many sites as I could to use my Outlook.com email address. Works just fine.
Office Online with OneDrive is a fantastic product. Sure it costs money, but if you're not paying for a product, you're not "locked in". Download your docs in Office format and save them to OneDrive, done.
I actually switched to Bing Maps a long time prior to this because Google Maps has such poor performance on every computer I use it on. Google Maps has the far superior place search, but Bing Maps works better as an actual map in my experience.
The only Google service I use regularly is Google Translate, because there really is no comparison.
- mhermher 9y agoAnd YouTube, where the competition is not even close as far as content. It's really the one irreplaceable Google product.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoLike the Play Store/Android. In a space where content is king, monopolies win big. FWIW, YouTube is actually the only Google product I allow to store my history and recommend me stuff, because it's the only place I find it actually helpful or valuable, and the privacy risk of that data is of low value to me.
- visarga 9y ago> The only Google service I use regularly is Google Translate, because there really is no comparison. There is one, since yesterday. Try https://www.deepl.com/translator https://www.deepl.com/translator
- eridius 9y agoUnfortunately that appears to only support western European languages.
- brepl 9y agoIt only supports _some_ western European languages.
- kruczek 9y agoImpressive. I tried it on a couple comments in the thread as well as paragraphs from news sources, translating English<->Polish and back, and it indeed produces much more readable (I might even say: natural) translations, than Google Translate.