Making it simple for users to walk away from a Google service with which they are unhappy keeps the company honest and on its toes, and Google competitors should embrace this data portability principle. “If you look at the historical large company behavior, they ultimately do things to protect their business practices or monopoly or what have you, against the choice of the users. The more we can, for example, let users move their data around, never trap the data of an end user, let them move it if they don’t like us, the better.”

so maybe now marc canter can drop his “GData lock-in” claims
2007-03-07: matt lists the ways we let you take your data with you

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