Setting an example
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| hkwint Sep 16, 2009 4:39 PM EDT |
Will Microsoft and Amazon follow? Please note: I don't even dare to mention Apple. I'm not sure. But at least this "data liberation" is a good hint at other companies. Especially, this sounds like the way "life should be": Quoting:because when it’s easy for users to leave your product, there’s a sense of urgency to improve and innovate in order to keep your users. That would also go for telco's, fitness providers, internet providers, newspapers and what else you're subscribed too. Here's a nice example: For years, Microsoft's Hotmail didn't offer POP3. But it did offer WebDAV. Via WebDAV, you were able to receive mail without using the web interface. Until WebDAV support was dropped. From then on, it was a battle of FreePops and its LUA-hotmail filter against Microsoft - at least it seemed so. Microsoft changed the interface, Russel (Schwager) changed the FreePops filter within days so Kontact was able to fetch it again. And then, finally, more because of GMail than because of FreePops I suggest, Microsoft took a hit and enabled POP3 for hotmail as well. After which I don't need Freepops anymore. I never even see the hotmail-interface nowadays. Hotmail-mail is merged with mail from my internet provider, I never even am aware anymore I'm using Microsoft. So while Microsoft is slow to change (and so is Apple), this might be an important event in the history. But I'm not yet convinced. For example: When will Google liberate my Google-cookie that will live until 2038? Oh, I forgot. It's the Firefox extension "cookieculler" doing the liberation for me. Not Google. And when will the file formats of the video's at Youtube be liberated? |
| beirwin Sep 16, 2009 5:57 PM EDT |
Gee, that's nice of Google to do this. However, IMO, this begs the question -- why entrust your data storage to a corporation off site somewhere in cyberspace? Call me old-fashion, but I'd *much* prefer to have my own data under my control, thank you very much. |
| jezuch Sep 17, 2009 2:14 AM EDT |
Quoting:because when it’s easy for users to leave your product, there’s a sense of urgency to improve and innovate in order to keep your users. I think it was Joel Spolsky who wrote that making it easy to quit is usually enough to keep the customer. Ahhh, yes... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html |
| hkwint Sep 17, 2009 3:36 AM EDT |
You're right beirwin, calling this the 'Data liberation front' confirms that the data was obviously captured in first place. |
| flufferbeer Sep 17, 2009 9:01 PM EDT |
@beirwin and hkwint, Seems a little scary. There is also the revelatory Google site google-watch.org which monitors Google-users concerns such as this data capturing and storage. Hmm..... >:-[ |
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