Comment by PurpleFoxy 5 years ago The users agree because they keep using gmail despite many good paid alternatives existing. 2 comments PurpleFoxy Reply EricE 5 years ago Only because the users haven't yet experienced a situation like this where the real value of "free" gets exposed.Everyone loves to think "that can't happen to me" then act all surprised when the inevitable happens.Grashopper and ant with a world full of grashoppers :p PurpleFoxy 5 years ago I think we probably need some kind of government regulation so that you can’t just close someone’s account without warning or access to support, or at the very least, you can’t prevent them from exporting their data and migrating to another service.
EricE 5 years ago Only because the users haven't yet experienced a situation like this where the real value of "free" gets exposed.Everyone loves to think "that can't happen to me" then act all surprised when the inevitable happens.Grashopper and ant with a world full of grashoppers :p PurpleFoxy 5 years ago I think we probably need some kind of government regulation so that you can’t just close someone’s account without warning or access to support, or at the very least, you can’t prevent them from exporting their data and migrating to another service.
PurpleFoxy 5 years ago I think we probably need some kind of government regulation so that you can’t just close someone’s account without warning or access to support, or at the very least, you can’t prevent them from exporting their data and migrating to another service.
Only because the users haven't yet experienced a situation like this where the real value of "free" gets exposed.
Everyone loves to think "that can't happen to me" then act all surprised when the inevitable happens.
Grashopper and ant with a world full of grashoppers :p
I think we probably need some kind of government regulation so that you can’t just close someone’s account without warning or access to support, or at the very least, you can’t prevent them from exporting their data and migrating to another service.