Google"s CEO says, "We would never trap user data." Google"s Matt Cutts emphasizes the company philosophy to "send your users away happy and they"ll come back."
One way for Google to increase the interoperability of their tools would be to open a file-type control center to the world. For example, when you right-click a file of the "offline operating system" Windows, you can select a list of applications from the "Open with..." box. But where"s this box in the online operating system Google is building?
Take Gmail. When someone sends you a *.doc attachment, Google offers you to open this as HTML page, to open it with Google Docs, or to download it to your hard disk. But what if ...
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