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I'm glad Google made CardDAV available and decided not to restrict CalDAV, at least for now. However, I wonder how long it will continue to support these standa
by mwcampbell 13y ago
I'm glad Google made CardDAV available and decided not to restrict CalDAV, at least for now. However, I wonder how long it will continue to support these standards, especially for users of the free services. Supporting these standards might not be directly in Google's best interest, since the more thoroughly Google supports task-specific protocols such as CardDAV, CalDAV, and XMPP, the fewer opportunities it has to present ads. So it may still be good for users to think about moving to services where the user is actually the customer.
- jmillikin 13y agoIn all cases the user is the customer. Some customers pay with real currency (e.g. those who have enterprise accounts), others pay by loaning a few thousand pixel-seconds to advertisers. It's very much in Google's interest to encourage task-specific protocols, because they can be attached to subscriptions, and subscriptions are denominated in real currency. If Jane Smith knows that GAE has good support for syncing her calendar to her iPhone, she's more likely to use it as her company's email/calendar/documents provider.
- jkn 13y agoCould you be more specific? AFAIK there are no ads in Google Talk/Hangouts, Calendar and Contacts. Google is known for making the vast majority of its money from ads, but definitely not for putting ads in all of their products. Even if they did show add in these products, how does that relate to supporting standards as alternative means of accessing your data? Like in Gmail, which shows ads in the web interface but also supports POP and IMAP.