Expunging Google

Post by woe » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 7:57 AM UTC

cageface wrote: post #70

duncan_bayne wrote: post #68

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> I strongly suspect that very few people would be willing to > pay what it would cost to build and run a service like > GMail without ads. What do you think the problem would be? I'm using Fastmail now, and not missing anything from Gmail. All for $50 / month.

I tried Fastmail last year and maybe my impressions are out of date but it can't compete on features at all. The web interface is stone age compared to gmail, search is far slower and less sophisticated, spam filtering was not as good etc. No native apps are available for mobile. Fastmail isn't bad but I don't consider them to be in the same league.

Post by lobster_johnson » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

dannyr wrote: post #169

lobster_johnson wrote: post #84

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No, I'm saying that Google is innovating very little. Indeed, it's primarily innovating in areas not related to the web (which the article is about). Search, Maps,YouTube have not evolved much the last few years; the last true innovation was Street View, and the last truly useful addition to Search was the fact database integration. Android is basically just following in Apple's footsteps. Wallet I don't know anythin…

I could pick out misinformation for every word in your reply. Pretty much every product you said have not evolved is continually improving. You know I say that? Because I USE them. I'm 100% sure you have not spent time using these products.

Post by Spakman » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 2:57 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #135

yanw wrote: post #17

I try to avoid these sorts of submissions, mainly because of their non-content and the subsequent familiar discussion, but somehow they keep reaching the front page. It’s certainly your prerogative to use whatever you like but the incorrect assertions bother me, especially the prevalent one: “It's because I think that Google is now working against the potential of the open web”. Here’s a rebuttal in the form of a par…

Here’s a rebuttal in the form of a partial list of links to Google initiatives that exist primarily to advance the “open web”: http://www.chromium.org That's funny. I see Chromium as their OSS alibi for doing whatever non-standard they want with open-web HTML, which doesn't exist in any other browser. But now it's not "proprietary", because it's in a OS code-repo somewhere. So now it's "standards" even though it hasn…