"Data lock-in isn’t bad just for users; Fitzpatrick argues that it’s also bad for Google. “If you create a user base that’s locked in,” he says, “there’s no way you’re not going to become complacent."

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Why Google makes it easy to leave Google

Yessssssss. Myspace, Facebook and even Tumblr make it ridiculously difficult to import and export data, which makes me unwilling to comprehensively populate them with the things I want to keep for good.

1 March 2010 ·

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