grumpyfart

The funny thing is latest client is worse than the last client for Windows. Previous client was quite good actually, new one doesn't even look like a native Windows app.

I think they fall into "Let's rewrite this and make it better!" FAIL. You need to be pretty stupid to rewrite something that's actually working unless you got a great confident, team and time, and final client of them proves that they sucked, and now it's going to take them another 6 months to come up with something as good as their previous client.

When startups are going to learn to not to do obviously stupid like "OMG, our client is not good enough, instead of improving it, let's rewrite it, yay!" ?

Well even in that case attackers won't touch your data (since you aren't targeted), so you'll be still safe. If they are targeting you then it's the same thing.

There is a high possibility that Google's server is 10 times more secure than any average Joe's mail server. Even more secure than a security expert's server as well: http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/08/dan-kaminsky-kevin-mitnick...

Do you have time to manage and keep your server secure? Can you patch a new 0day in an hour, possibly not.

On the other hand when men-in-black asks to Google yes they might give it away, which is another story.