That’s true, but organising and managing such a distributed form of IA would probably be a nightmare of a job. I’ve seen many people suggest that to IA, but they seem to be very very reluctant about the idea.

Huh? The public can store data on IA just fine. I’ve uploaded dozens of public-domain books there.

I’m worrying that whatever gets sold (Chrome or Android) might end up in the hands of someone even more scummy than Google.