Google knows their poop. I do agree that you should have a backup.
But you unless you're running your own email server as a full time
job, you're not going to do as well as the gmail team (and even then
it's highly debatable). Now, the scary thing is if/when they change
their usage model to something more inconvenient... Such as charging
for GAFYD, or shoving more ads in your face, or not supporting 'the
next big thing', or getting more proprietary. While speaking of
gmail... a friend of mine who worked on the google docs team until
recently told me they have exchange in use for part of the iphone (
may be all mobile, but I was specifically told iphone ) interface.
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> But since the whole "purpose" of webmail is that you can check your email
> from wherever you are, doesn't offline gmail defeat that purpose?
>
> On 2009-05-15 16:32, -ray wrote:
>>
>> Gmail is probably "up" more than your locally hosted apps, it's just that
>> the whole world doesn't get notified when your local apps go down.
>>
>> Either way, you can use Gmail offline. It even works on Linux (yes i've
>> tested it).
>>
>> http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html
>>
>> ray
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> ... Google for anything but search:
>>>
>>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-302332.html?tag=nl.e539
>>> About one in seven Google users around the world lost the
>>> use of some or all of the company's services on Thursday
>>> as a result of a major network outage.
>>>
>>> When (not if, but when) the network goes down, you can still read and
>>> compose locally-stored email, and still use locally-hosted apps.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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