It's about Google and Limitnone...

What a bunch o MacMorons...

How many ways are there to go from "here to there"? I'd think any translation implementation between those two endpoints would have to be similar.

I wonder why Apple stole it's name from a piece of fruit ?

I wonder if Xerox feels the same way about Apple taking the PARC graphical UI and rewriting it for Apple Lisa.

OK, so MSFT doesn't exactly fall over itself to make migration of data from Outlook easy. But its not exactly hard. Everyone does it. As for migrating it to Gmail -- Google's hardly going to want to migrate it to something else.

It should be a routine piece of software done "for hire" or purchased at a reasonable price. My guess is the "tiny startup" had an unrealistic revenue model -- they priced them out of the job. They're not the first people to do this (CP/M anyone?).

Actually, Apple got the windows idea from Xerox in much the same way Google got their ideas from Limitnone.

I wonder if Apple fanboys will ever get it though their heads that Apple nicked the whole GUI concept from Xerox.

Not good news for Google's MetaDataMining Operations

Perhaps we could sue Google for abusive use of "G" terms, or even worse, misuse of "o" letters.

Suing Google seems like the big trend now...

I wonder if Apple feels the same way about Microsoft's taking the windows UI interface and rewriting it for PC.

Google is following Microsoft's footprints.

950 mil to migrate outlook contacts. Sounds like I'm in the wrong business. Except, it's been done before, many times. 

Regardless of whether google screwed them or not, $950 mil is a joke. No wonder google did it themselves.