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I know there are a lot of arguments for why the user owns a completely free interface that revolutionized electronic communication. I know that many of them wil

I know there are a lot of arguments for why the user owns a completely free interface that revolutionized electronic communication. I know that many of them will be stated below. I acknowledge that these arguments have weight and validity. However... This is a business decision. MaysonL stated that '...people trying to foist changes like this...should consider the fact that there are humans on the other end of the computer.'" Why exactly should they consider this? Has there been a vast migration? Are the people using the service paying them? Has anyone noticed that Google is moving to enterprise platforms. More importantly, has anyone noticed that Google has an active branch pursuing RFPs an IDIQs in the federal space? Google is looking for paying customers. This is how it goes. This is Hacker News for pete's sake. If you don't like GMail, make a product that works better and post it here. You'll probably get a lot of customers. (By which I mean freeloaders to whom you will have to provide massive memory and bandwidth) Edit: fixed quotes

selectnull 15y ago
>> Google is looking for paying customers. This is how it goes. That's the way it should go. I am very glad to pay 50 bucks a year for my google apps. I want to pay for it because I want the company that is storing and backing up my data to be profitable. I want them to have the mindset of having paying customers so they have to take care of their's customers data. I want them to focus on the product being good, ever evolving, and profitable. And gmail is exactly that.[1] [1] Ok, I don't know if Gmail as product is profitable, but I do hope they go in that direction