This is what I love Ruby for: one-liners! :) Thanks for the summary, truly helpful.

This is gold. Forwarded to all friends.

There is no such thing as confidentiality, as long as you let someone transfer your data, be it Google, your local network provider, or a mobile operator. The only solution is end-to-end encryption, which obviously Gmail won't allow, since they need our data for their AdWords to target ads better.

This article deserves a better place than a Quora answer :) Why not a blog post of a proper article in MIT or somewhere similar?

The service is not the weakest part of Apple. Instead, is the complete lack of innovation nowadays. They lost everything since the death of Steve Jobs. Unfortunately.

Lisp is and was the best programming language. I moved to Java many years ago and still regret :)

They are trying to put the fast growing market of freelancers under control. I don't see it as a bad move. The market is becoming bigger every year. Eventually everybody will be freelancers. You like this videos of Yegor, he is constantly speaking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gnDmr_H2Ks

Haha... Anything is in some sense "in a box" until information passes to it from another thing. Philosophical points only...

And why it matters to us? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really interested. What will this event affect?

It's so sad to see it all happening, after we all have been celebrating their success ...