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Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor by sagivo on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:09AM (#9776073)
Yes. Google now try to take it all like the old Microsoft. No wonder they get bad response for each new product like that people simply don't trust them anymore.
Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor by EGreg on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:30AM (#9776130)
I pretty much trust Google, Apple, Amazon etc. to safeguard my data better than others.

What do you mean? Don't you use gmail, publish to the app store, and host with AWS? Do you use Stripe for payments? Google Maps? Facebook login? You are trusting these companies with a great deal.

Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor by grepz on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:16AM (#9777307)
Depends on what you mean by 'trust'. Personally try to minimize possible negative impact such services can do with information I choose to share/store in case some/all services are compromised.
Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor by EGreg on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:57AM (#9777506)
How do you mitigate AWS and the App Store?
Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor by grepz on Thursday June 25, 2015 @07:51PM (#9781658)
Those I just don't use at all, really. :) They are not so popular in my part of the world.
Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor by mechazawa on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:24AM (#9776428)
>Don't you use gmail, publish to the app store, and host with AWS? Do you use Stripe for payments? Google Maps? Facebook login?

Dear god no, no, no, no, no, no.

Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor by AdieuToLogic on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:20AM (#9776260)
> I pretty much trust Google, Apple, Amazon etc. to safeguard my data better than others.

Why?

> Don't you use gmail, publish to the app store, and host with AWS? Do you use Stripe for payments? Google Maps? Facebook login? You are trusting these companies with a great deal.

Believe it or not, most people do not do all of these things. Many do none.

Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor by EGreg on Thursday June 25, 2015 @09:00AM (#9777525)
Many developers and startups do one or more of those things.

Because trusting large companies that are trusted by many others and have invested in a large infrastructure makes it much more feasible to accomplish their goals. It is possible to trust no one, eg build on the blockchain or freenet, but there is so far much less audience, and it's only recently become feasible to go to marketwith that stuff.

If your goal is to attract millions of customers who can understand how to get started with your technology, trusting large corporations is usually an acceptable tradeoff.

And if you want to be competitive with what's out there using the features of native iOS or AWS or gmail or whatever these services offer that you can't simply get without trusting them, then you HAVE to trust them or users will use another product which did.