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Some offerings like GMail, Search, and YouTube are viewed as safe. Others I think are likely avoided more. And probably end up a self fulfilling prophecy. No on
by Bedon292 6y ago
Some offerings like GMail, Search, and YouTube are viewed as safe. Others I think are likely avoided more. And probably end up a self fulfilling prophecy. No one uses it because it will be killed, so its killed because no one uses it.
It is certainly a hinderance to the adoption of their cloud services. They have not yet shown they are in it for the long haul.
- koolba 6y agoYouTube is safe in so much as the service will continue to operate. That's no guarantee that your videos will continue to be hosted. And Gmail is best used with your own domain (@example.com, not @gmail.com). That way when they do kick you off you can use your offline back of messages and repoint some MX records.
- tinus_hn 6y agoThey are rather unavoidable, many videos are only available on YouTube. And if my email address was on my own domain it wouldn’t be on gmail, of course. It’s not as if my use case is rocket science, just sending, receiving and storing mail. It’s a legacy application from when gmail was special.