3 ms·

> I meet more and more people who are wary of putting all their trust/data/etc into only one provider, be that Google, Apple or anyone else. I'd be wary of ass

> I meet more and more people who are wary of putting all their trust/data/etc into only one provider, be that Google, Apple or anyone else. I'd be wary of assuming from this data point that people are willing to be even slightly inconvenienced for it. Just take a look at Facebook: the entire history of the company has been one of disrespecting and subsequently pissing off users, and yet out of the huge amount of people I know who have repeatedly expressed anger at how Facebook treats their users, I know exactly one person who stopped using it or even reduced their usage. I'm not sure whether your assumption that people's concern will translate into even the slightest bit of action is sound.

amirmc 12y ago
This is what I meant further up thread when I mentioned segmenting the market. I don't believe everyone will move to a new solution but I do believe that some will. I also believe that the first users will be the technical ones who already understand the trade-offs and that there's a continuum of inconvenience that they'd be willing to endure (I'm lazy, so I won't tolerate much). For example, think of the number of people who maintain their own static websites, either on GitHub or EC2 or elsewhere. All those people could just use Tumblr or Wordpress.com, yet they chose not to.