Re:More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security
by 1123581321 on Friday March 25, 2016 @02:59PM
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I don't see why Gmail has to be all-or-nothing. I would like to see Google continue their free/cheap service as is, and offer a more expensive service with better security. I think Google would be able to greatly improve the interface for end-to-end encryption if they chose to. However, the company seems disinterested in cooperating less with law enforcement and spy agencies.
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Re:More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security
by thomasthomas on Friday March 25, 2016 @04:02PM
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I would suspect this is because when 99% of users hear of an upgraded gmail service that costs money, they will start asking questions as to what's wrong with their current gmail service. They get so much synergy across products from users data it's probably not worth it to point out current gmail drawbacks to 100% of customers: even if x% switch to premium, 1-x are now aware of drawbacks of using google across all products and could unpredictably hurt top line rev.