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Right in Google's announcement: "Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout o
by parfe 13y ago
Right in Google's announcement:
"Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months." http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cl...
How is 37signals' announcement any better?
- SkyMarshal 13y agoYup, google has an engineering team dedicated to exactly that: http://www.dataliberation.org/ http://www.dataliberation.org/
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- pretz 13y ago37signals recommended functioning alternative services, not just data export.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoSo them saving users a Google Search for the alternatives was all it took to clear them? Damn, if only big G had known, they could have saved themselves a lot of flak. (Actually, it wouldn't have mattered. Don't kid yourself.)
- dylangs1030 13y agoYes, but that's not really Google's responsibility. They deliberately gave a three month sunset for users to find another solution. That's entirely the point of a sunset. Their product is also free, so it's not like they're hurting businesses or real customers by not helping them find alternatives. They're not really obligated to even do anything at all - it was a free service. If they were being paid it would make more sense.
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- rhizome 13y agoIt's not 37S's responsibility, either.
- dylangs1030 13y agoI believe we can reasonably hold them to it. You can't just shut off the lights to a product that people pay for (well, you could, but that's a liability).