[Fuzzwah]

gwern's amazing analysis puts voice pretty high on the predicted shutdown of google services list.

http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns#predictions

44% chance of surviving the next 5 years.

[dannyanders]

Great post. I definitely see this as a wake up call to people who think the cloud is the solution to everything. Speed for the price of control over your data....

[hatchoo]

That's what gets me worried about using these "proprietary" PaaS offerings.