[...] Then suddenly you say, guys I'm shutting down the park tomorrow, just go play somewhere else. Will you still say that those people don't have the rights to be upset?
I'm 48 years old. Do you really think that situations like this never happened to me, both on internet and IRL ? Where's this marvelous library that was selling BD/comic/hentai coming from everywhere in the world in the 90's ? Where's that amazing ftp server where we were sure to find for free all the music titles we wanted, whatever the style ? Where's this ? Where's that ?
It's just be the cycle of life. Internet lost many layers, some already dead like
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, other slowly dying since years, like
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or
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. And during my time on internet, I had to change so many times my e-mails provider, not counting the hundreds of really good sites I've seen closing. Just don't take things for granted and believe that they'll be here all your life.
To keep your example, if you rely only on G-mail and google drive to save your data, then it's your fault if you loose your data when they'll close, not theirs. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time, far from it, that
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.
Now you'll know, if you want to keep something for a long time, when not for all your life, it's at your home that you need to keep it, not at the home of someone else.