People have tendencies to see things only black & white. Not everything in Google ecosystem is necessarily bad, exactly opposite - some thing are really good, secure, with good UX and other aspects. Of course you'll loose some of your privacy but in case your threat model is more than average, I would always choose security in the first place.
Sure, not everything is bad but if a customer wants to migrate because of a lack of trust, let them migrate :-)
Yes, having everything integrated is an advantage, but having different paid services is also an advantage.
I haven't migrated from Gmail because I've had it since the beta and it's a drag to have to change your email addresses, but I don't particularly like Google's privacy policy on it.
Yep, to be clear - I'm a big fan of paying for your services with money instead of your privacy!
Still Google does have bunch of really superior products (Chrome, Cloud services), and I'm personally ok to pay for them with my privacy. If there will be choice to pay with money instead, I would choose it.
At the same time, some of their products/services (e.g. Firebase) really sucks.
The whole Google thing is very fragmented.
People have tendencies to see things only black & white. Not everything in Google ecosystem is necessarily bad, exactly opposite - some thing are really good, secure, with good UX and other aspects. Of course you'll loose some of your privacy but in case your threat model is more than average, I would always choose security in the first place.
Sure, not everything is bad but if a customer wants to migrate because of a lack of trust, let them migrate :-)
Yes, having everything integrated is an advantage, but having different paid services is also an advantage.
I haven't migrated from Gmail because I've had it since the beta and it's a drag to have to change your email addresses, but I don't particularly like Google's privacy policy on it.
I choose privacy with reasonable security
Yep, to be clear - I'm a big fan of paying for your services with money instead of your privacy!
Still Google does have bunch of really superior products (Chrome, Cloud services), and I'm personally ok to pay for them with my privacy. If there will be choice to pay with money instead, I would choose it.
At the same time, some of their products/services (e.g. Firebase) really sucks.
The whole Google thing is very fragmented.
That's normal with big companies that have hundreds of products.
After all a company is made by people :)
Yes, standard corp. is usually made by a whole lot of sane and intelligent developers and few greedy dicks who rule it.