p2pnet.net News:- Google ceo Eric Schmidt says the company, “wants to make the information it stores for its users easily portable so they can export it to a competing service if they are dissatisfied,” states NetworkWorld.

Making it simple for users to walk away from a Google service if they’re unhappy, “keeps the company honest and on its toes, and Google competitors should embrace this data portability principle,” Schmidt said at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

“If you look at the historical large company behavior, they ultimately do things to protect their business practices or monopoly or what have you, against the choice of the users,” the story has him saying.

“The more we can, for example, let users move their data around, never trap the data of an end user, let them move it if they don’t like us, the better.”

Moreover, “The hosted application model provides a more convenient experience for users because it is more robust and reliable and simpler to maintain,” Schmidt says in NetworkWorld post. “It also makes it easier for users to search for data across applications and share documents with each other, he said. Users also like that these applications are free, as opposed to the fee-based packaged software.”.

Schnmidt didn’t say if this should also apply in China where Google helps the authorities to keep the population chronically deprived of information.

Also See:
NetworkWorld - Google CEO: Take your data and run, November 7, 2006

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