The Downide of Your ISP Turning to Gmail

SlinkySausage writes "Google is offering ISPs the opportunity to turn over their entire email operation to Google, with all customer email hosted as Gmail accounts. This would allow Google to grow its user base rapidly (Google is a distant third with 51M users compared to Yahoo's 250M and Hotmail's 228M). There are some obvious benefits to end users — Google is offering ISPs mailboxes of up to 10GB per user. APCMag.com has posted an interesting piece looking at the dark side of Google's offer. Not least is in its reinforcing of the attachment people have to their ISP's email address, making it harder to change ISPs if a better deal comes along."

Comments

Re:Eh?

[UbuntuDupe]

Yeah, another GREAT feature Firefox added was making it so it doesn't load URLs that you click on in the URL bar[1], so you have to hit enter or click the "go" button, and then made it so none of the help or FAQs or google hits shows you how to fix that. Oh well, at least this time it didn't delete my bookmarks.

[1]You know, the place where you type in URLs, and has a drop-down list of recently visited URLs ... don't play dumb with terminology.

Re:What's 'grow'?

[Anonymous Coward]

That is probably a good thing. Besides, neither does your mom.