Lack of “Security” May Hinder Future Google Adoption
I better make this clear: I am not talking about encryption, password, hashes, etc. Not that kind of security.
No, I'm talking about reliability. Something Google has had for a very long time, and one of the many reasons I'm such a Google fanatic.
Until recently, at least as far as I can remember, Google products that existed did not see the end of the tunnel very often. (The question and answer service excluded).
Recently, however, Google has been trying to expand into many markets. From what I can take away, Google wants to be the hub of information exchange on the Internet. After all, knowing all of that powers their search - and their search powers their ads.
Recently though, several Google services have announced that they will be discontinued. Among these: Wave, PowerMeter, and Health.
PowerMeter and Health did not see large enough adoption for Google to continue putting forth the funds for them. To me, this is disappointing. Being able to get this information so easily and readily through Google was really exciting. After all: Google has the technological know-how to keep my data secure and provide at least decent user interfaces to said data. In fact, I used Google Health - although since I don't have many issues it was currently just to store my insurance information.
Now though, these services will be disappearing. Who is to say that other less-mainstream services won't disappear in the future? Buzz? Voice? Google+? Well, there's no way that last one could disappear... right?
If I'm going to rely on Google to provide a service, I'm going to need the security of knowing that the service is going to continue to exist. I might be asking a bit much as a free user, but its still a very important consideration.
If Google loses this trust; this security; this reliability - won't it hinder future adoption of Google's services?
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