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There was at least one story of "our Google account was banned, our small business is inoperable and we can't contact anyone" on HN.

Gmail, Docs, Drive seem pretty safe bets. Would not put my money on anything else though.

I'm pretty sure the ads will keep working :P

Fine for individuals. But switching a huge org with tons of weird, internal processes and rules seems like a gamble that meeting those requirements will always be important for Gmail (ie, using ie11 for some dumb reason).

I agree with you on drive, but docs is missing lots of features compared to msoffice (macros, excel functions, offline storage and runs) and google hasn’t been building tons of stuff into docs for a while.

I think they are fine for small orgs, but big orgs pay for lots of support and customization.

> Seems implausible, no?

Not really. All it would take would be liability for privacy violations.

These products have Enterprise customers with long term contracts. Same as core GCP services.

They can't be turned down for any reason. End of story.

They are shutting down inbox though. I know the mail will stay, but I will miss inbox.