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The availability of paid email hosting and document creation, editing and storage is, IMO, an example of the point I was making.
If, e.g., businesses and other organisations were potentially upset about Gmail scanning (remember Google was sued for this and lost) then that dissatisfaction argubaly provides motivation to avoid Gmail.
That motivation could potentially spread outside of businesses and other organisations. Google's job is to take away such motivation.
Arguably Google Workspaces is Google doing its job of quelling a potential uprising, so to speak. They are taking away potential motivation to innovate away from Google and online advertising. (It also highlights the inherent flaws in a "free" services model. For many businesses and organisations, this is not acceptable.)
Meanwhile, the company's core business remains unchanged: providing services for "free" while generating billions in profits through online advertising services.
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The availability of paid email hosting and document creation, editing and storage is, IMO, an example of the point I was making.If, e.g., businesses and other organisations were potentially upset about Gmail scanning (remember Google was sued for this and lost) then that dissatisfaction argubaly provides motivation to avoid Gmail.
That motivation could potentially spread outside of businesses and other organisations. Google's job is to take away such motivation.
Arguably Google Workspaces is Google doing its job of quelling a potential uprising, so to speak. They are taking away potential motivation to innovate away from Google and online advertising. (It also highlights the inherent flaws in a "free" services model. For many businesses and organisations, this is not acceptable.)
Meanwhile, the company's core business remains unchanged: providing services for "free" while generating billions in profits through online advertising services.