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The worst thing is that we've traded one monopoly (MS via Office and Windows) for a different set of monopolists. How dependent are organizations on Google Driv
by _ea1k 4y ago
The worst thing is that we've traded one monopoly (MS via Office and Windows) for a different set of monopolists. How dependent are organizations on Google Drive these days and what would the switching costs look like?
- tetris11 4y agoGoogle's online suite doesn't.do anything special anymore, people just use it for convenience and because its free. There are many alternatives who can fill the vacuum the moment it stops being free and Google know this
- bpodgursky 4y agoThat's... really not true. Gsuite is the default choice for new businesses (as a paid product) because of the integration between email and docs.
- zamadatix 4y agoIn regards to the above about organizations they definitely pay for it. Particularly a large percentage of the Google Workspace and Chromebook users are K-12. As another example my previous place of employment was a healthcare org that switched ~150k users from O365 to (what was then called) G Suite for a large annual subscription and it really wasn't much cheaper.