In his post on GDrive yesterday, Om Malik wrote that he didn't like the idea at all:
My biggest problem with GDrive is that it would come from Google. As my friend Mark Evans points out, “Before you know it, Google has become a daily and integral part of your digital portfolio. Not that this a bad thing given Google’s products are really good but it should make you think about how dependent you can become on Google for pretty much everything. The downside is you can lose access to a lot of essential information if Google, for whatever reason, locks you out.”
How timely of Google to show Om less than 24 hours later that we have more immediate worries than "Google one day going too far, and getting away with it".
Until I saw Robin Wauters' Techcrunch post, I wondered if I could have done something wrong. Hmm. Maybe I should be backing up my Gmail messages and Google Docs.
Google does provide great products, but I do agree with you- so many of us, including myself, are too dependent on google. If something did go wrong, it could be pretty disastrous...
Posted by: Shandra | September 25, 2009 at 12:53 AM