Between You and Me “Injecting so many menus, no matter how gracefully designed and modern, between your friends and the things you like, seems downright antisocial.” – Sam Biddle
Distraction+ “I see Google as solving legitimately difficult technological problems, not doing stupid things like cloning Facebook. Google, in my opinion, lost sight of what was important when they went down this rabbit hole.” – Spencer Tipping
$0 is No Longer an Innovation “I wish there were a for-pay service I could switch to which would be easy and fast and nothing would break. I think the free email has killed off all the good for-pay email.” – Dave Winer From Opt Out’s ‘Free as in Lunch’ chapter: “An email client that can handle today’s daily onslaught of email hasn’t been released. The $0 price tag has effectively killed any re-thinking of the email and the email application as a whole. This means our understanding and experience with one of the most mature, open, and decentralized communications technology is frozen in a time before any of my, and perhaps your, children were born.” – Garrick van Buren, Opt Out
Hollow “But you know what’s easy to find outside Google Play or Apple’s iTunes? Anything you want.” – Violet Blue
Eating the Free Lunch “GMail is slow because Google can’t afford to spend a lot on it. But people will pay for this. I’d have no problem paying $50 a month. Considering how much time I spend in email, it’s kind of scary to think how much I’d be justified in paying. At least $1000 a month. If I spend several hours a day reading and writing email, that would be a cheap way to make my life better.” – Paul Graham
Opting Out of Gmail “I want to continue using the Google tools I love without the risk of loosing my online identity by doing something I didn’t know was prohibited (I am still not sure why that Google Adsense account is gone), without the work involved in understanding the entire Google ecosystem to manage my privacy, and without constant distraction by the latest gadgets Google came up with. Dropping Gmail is how I achieve this.” – Neubertify
The New Search for Passion “Google is too powerful, too arrogant, too entrenched to be worth our love. Let them defend themselves, I’d rather devote my emotional energy to the upstarts and startups. They deserve our passion.” – Nelson Minar
“Either what I create is remarkable or what I create is unread.” ” I don’t want to make it easy to share what I write. If it’s as remarkable as it ought to be, it will be shared. There will not, however, be any casual tweets or likes. Besides, those buttons waste a lot of space and tend to ruin the reading experience.” – J. D. Bentley
