This is quite a great achievement for Apple. They currently are doing very well with their advertising campaign and showing off the capabilities of their products. I have been a hard-line OSS user for probably about 5 years and have been very impressed with the new eMac, Powerbook and G5, the new MacOS X too is very refined and well done and I love how the command line utilities are still available(compared to Win). I think all governments should be trying to distribute their computing schemes to several different OS for security purposes alone and should at least not be locked into deals with Microsoft. Linux on the desktop I just don't feel has the simple usability of MacOS X yet so I am very glad too see Apple getting such a large deployment. I am sure their will be more to come as I doubt they will hear many complaints about there G4 iMacs.
As you can see from my first sentence I was addressing the small amount of people that will not use google due to the privacy concerns. The exact sentence was
"Their will be only a small few that won't try Gmail due to their fear of misuse or privacy concerns."
People who will not try it due to not needing it is another issue and one which I did not address.
Their will be only a small few that won't try Gmail due to their fear of misuse or privacy concerns. Google has become a household name for people that use computers and even to those that barely ever touch a computer. I really don't see a need to currently extend or create new laws as the terms of service are clearly laid out and it is an optional free service. Gmail is destined for success already as there has been a large amount of media coverage and many people are not worried about the privacy issues. From the screenshots and some reviews currently out the interface seems to be very nice and the search features sound great. I will be definitely getting an account to at least try it, the 1 GB of space definitely is a plus too.
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This is quite a great achievement for Apple. They currently are doing very well with their advertising campaign and showing off the capabilities of their products. I have been a hard-line OSS user for probably about 5 years and have been very impressed with the new eMac, Powerbook and G5, the new MacOS X too is very refined and well done and I love how the command line utilities are still available(compared to Win). I think all governments should be trying to distribute their computing schemes to several different OS for security purposes alone and should at least not be locked into deals with Microsoft. Linux on the desktop I just don't feel has the simple usability of MacOS X yet so I am very glad too see Apple getting such a large deployment. I am sure their will be more to come as I doubt they will hear many complaints about there G4 iMacs.
"I just don't need it."
As you can see from my first sentence I was addressing the small amount of people that will not use google due to the privacy concerns. The exact sentence was
"Their will be only a small few that won't try Gmail due to their fear of misuse or privacy concerns."
People who will not try it due to not needing it is another issue and one which I did not address.
Here are a few reviews that I was reading