The important question is, when is Google going to kill this functionality? DocuSign only has to hold out until then.
Also, I wonder if the person signing the document has to agree to Google's entire ToS in order to sign the document.
Congress could fix both issues with some well-thought-out legislation:
- Signatures from these things have to support external validation via standard tools (e.g., Google uses PGP or whatever to sign the signature + document + metadata).
- If the act of accessing or signing a contract implicitly incorporates other contracts, then either (a) the signature is non-binding of (b) the incorporated contracts are rendered unenforceable, regardless of whether they were agreed to via other means.
“Google Docs ships with esignatures now… but how long until Google kills another one of their products? Stay safe with DocuSign, import your Google Docs signatures and keep them forever, with or without Google.”
Hm... I briefly was a part of the Google Toolbar team back in 2008. How would it be relevant today? All of the features that I remember, are now a part of the browser itself (whether it's Firefox, Safari, Edge or Chrome/Chromium).
That said, the eSignature for Google Docs feature would definitely benefit from some strong (preferably, legal & irrevocable) commitment to keep it alive for 40+ years or more. Otherwise, I fail to see how it's useful.
I know I’m beating a dead horse^W^W^W dead Google products but, they really do kill a lot of popular products
That being said, if they add eSig for Google Docs I agree; I don’t see why nor how they’d kill that individual feature unless they kill Docs all-together. Which, hopefully, they won’t do for many years yet.
So how come I can't access chats from before mid-2013? Not even by Google Takeout?
(It so happens that some of the most important conversations in my life happened in 2012, so I'm to date super annoyed that, for no good reason, 2013 is some kind of cut-off date.)
inbox vs gmail play music vs youtube music
Much of the listed "casualties" were throwaway wrapper apps that have perfectly fine webapp replacements, apps for platforms that no longer exist, duplicates, and stand alone apps that are now features of bigger apps etc.
https://chat.openai.com/share/9b69427a-b28c-4080-b097-6a0a78...
The HN/LLM concordance ratio is approaching 1. Eventually, I can just remove comments and then fill them in with ChatGPT instead.