[dashoffset]

Google Reader thought me long ago not to depend or invest much time on Google services. Nowadays the only product that would cause me a huge problem if they decide to cancel it is Gmail.

[dmxt]

Honestly, I don't think they'll ever cancel Gmail.

Or maybe they'll cancel Gmail so users will transfer to (ew) Google Inbox. I sure hope not.

[Spooky23]

You're safe there. Imagine the day when Google migrated itself to O365. I can't either.

[microtonal]

Unlikely. Though I could see them disabling IMAP and/or SMTP for consumer GMail.

[rurban]

Hardly. They'd rather cancel POP first.

A long-term IMAP storage is legally needed for the spooks to read your email in real-time. With POP they don't have the legal excuses, so they cannot read it. Only what's left over there.

[microtonal]

A long-term IMAP storage is legally needed for the spooks to read your email in real-time.

There is an API for that: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/push#stopping...