Of course this is a great thing for us, the consumers. I just think of why Google would do this beyond it naturally sounding like a positive thing. Google has little to lose now as one post mentioned and their information is easy to share. Other companies may follow this trend because we, the consumer, expect to easily migrate data from one provider to the next and this is when Google can really tae advantage. As Google grows, buys more companies, and expands product offerings it seems it would be convenient if they could capture new customers easily because they suggested that industries move towards an easily transferable structure. Google, being the new comer to each service they begin to provide would stand to gain the most form this policy.
Conspiracy theory complete.
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Just store it in "the cloud..."
Of course this is a great thing for us, the consumers. I just think of why Google would do this beyond it naturally sounding like a positive thing. Google has little to lose now as one post mentioned and their information is easy to share. Other companies may follow this trend because we, the consumer, expect to easily migrate data from one provider to the next and this is when Google can really tae advantage. As Google grows, buys more companies, and expands product offerings it seems it would be convenient if they could capture new customers easily because they suggested that industries move towards an easily transferable structure. Google, being the new comer to each service they begin to provide would stand to gain the most form this policy. Conspiracy theory complete.
"The fact that he is going through this for pointing out a flaw is pretty horrifying."
Pointing out a flaw and developing a tool to exploit it are two different things.