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This makes sense from a support point of view. Supporting non-standard configurations costs money (both in direct and indirect ways, such as developer attentio
by juancn 6y ago
This makes sense from a support point of view.
Supporting non-standard configurations costs money (both in direct and indirect ways, such as developer attention and time lost triaging bugs, etc.), they don't want to spend the money on it.
- callmeal 6y ago>This makes sense from a support point of view. Support? Isn't this google we're talking about?
- geek_at 6y agothey need two whole server racks to process the auto-delete function that runs their support email backend ;)
- izacus 6y agoDo you expect Google (or any other publicly traded corpo facing pressure from shareholders) to finance hosting of competing products? I don't think it's a reasonable expectation from US corporations so we need to take their marketing with a grain of salt.
- m-p-3 6y agoAll the major Chrome-like competitors like Brave and Edge already uses their own sync engine, so the only users they're punishing are the users of Chromium.
- MPSimmons 6y agoWhat support does Google offer for this?
- snoshy 6y agoThere's nothing non-standard about this. The API keys to enable this functionality were provided by Google itself in 2013.