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Originally Posted by NoddY
Gmail is beta. Prepare to lose all data on a whim.
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Never gonna happen. You shouldn't trust some fly-by-night "Beta" service nobody's ever heard of with your data, but there's no way Google would ever discard its GMail users' data "on a whim". Or, indeed, any of its users' data. They're obsessional about looking after this stuff (and freely acknowledge that it's because this potentially leads to revenue).
I've just spent the day in the company of a number of Google's top engineers, and I can assure you of one thing: they aren't throwing
anything away.
And, although the paranoid types out there won't believe me, those engineers - and Google as a whole - actually regard the services they provide to their users as the most important thing on the To-Do list, not as a mere corollary to their commercial activities. The financial world might be suffering the consequences of a short-term-profit-centered world view, but that isn't how Google do things.
They're already doing very nicely by thinking in terms of tens of years, rather than tens of days like the financial wizards who've made such a glorious job of things.
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