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Originally Posted by Katsunami
What are you going to do if the one vendor you made yourself depend upon does something that you *REALLY* don't like? If you're invested heavily enough, you might even not be able to leave.
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You're right. I'm taking that gamble. In the meantime though, I'm having what I consider to be a greatly superior experience.
The one vendor we're talking about here, of course, is Google. To date, I really like most of what Google has provided, and even now they seem to going further in the direction that I like. I'd be surprised if they change course so dramatically that I'd want to cut all ties, say, within the next five years (if ever).
So, yes, it's a gamble, but even if I'm looking at just five hassle-free years, it's one I consider well worth taking.
It's also worth pointing out that except for the login process itself you could operate on a Chromebook quite happily using a completely different set of cloud services, say built around Skydrive or Dropbox.
Graham