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Loren Baker, editor of Search Engine Journal, has published a pleading Open Letter to Google : Why Have You Taken Away my Google & GMail Accounts? He complains:

Since Google has decided to take my account away from me, the nucleus of our company communications has been taken away and now is replaced by a black hole. My small business communications are now ruined until my account is reestablished.

Still, at least he now realises his mistake:

Now the joke is on me Google. After being an advocate for cloud computing, networked email and open communications, Google has taken this all away from me. My mistake; trusting Google and not backing up everything I had stored in my Gmail account.

Needless to say, "I told you so," several times. See, for example, Never assume your data is safe, even if it's online, and When Google owns you.... your data is in the cloud, and Don't have your head in the clouds about online services. I'll also be telling you again on October 30th, and probably a few more times in the future.

You should always remember Schofield's Second Law of Computing: data doesn't really exist unless you have two copies of it. Preferably more. If you only have one copy on Google then you don't own it, Google owns you. And if you are running a business on that basis, then either you are naïve or you're an idiot.