> What magical thing Google has that suddenly makes us all safe at this price point? If you're referring to the service staying around, probably nothing convin

> What magical thing Google has that suddenly makes us all safe at this price point? If you're referring to the service staying around, probably nothing convincing. If you're referring to your data being safe, probably the best, most battle-tested warehouse-scale data centers this side of the NSA. They restored Gmail data when they lost that [1] and nobody was paying anything then. It'd probably take co-ordinated airstrikes in multiple countries, ie world war to cause them permanent data loss. [1] http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/google-sorry-gmail-reset/ http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/google-sorry-gmail-reset/