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>>Email will no see decent progress thanks to gmail. I remember how great email was before GMail: 1. Every few days I had delete emails so that I can get new
by kumarm 10y ago
>>Email will no see decent progress thanks to gmail.
I remember how great email was before GMail:
1. Every few days I had delete emails so that I can get new email.
2. Delete sent mail immediately to make space for new emails.
3. More than 50% of emails received are spam.
Yeah right GMail was one that stopped progress of email :)
- educar 10y agoAs I noted, Google makes great products including gmail. My point was that with gmail being free and good enough, there is nobody to compete with gmail. In 2016, nobody will start an email company even though there are lots of advancements that can be made.
- endtime 10y agoIt was acquired and shut down, but https://www.mailboxapp.com/ https://www.mailboxapp.com/ was a thing recently.
- pianoben 10y agoI'll note here that the email startup Acompli, started in 2013, was acquired in 2014 for $200m. Their product is now Outlook Mobile. Gmail hasn't had nearly the stifling effect that one might assume!
- 1123581321 10y agoI don't agree with this. Google competes against Gmail with Inbox (a very advanced email product.) I also see people paying for Fastmail and some of the encrypted email products. Yahoo and Microsoft have also been improving their email services. I always like to see more competition, though.
- enraged_camel 10y ago>>even though there are lots of advancements that can be made. Such as?
- ukyrgf 10y agoMy company, my school, and just about every person I know uses Office 365 for their business email. Tons of people pay for email.
- secfirstmd 10y agoFuture progress though...may be very different....security and privacy considerations are hardly a good thing for GMail as a revenue source...
- baudehlo 10y agoYou honestly had really shitty spam blocking before. That's all. Nothing more. They didn't invent spam free email. My morning routine involves marking at least ten emails as spam on my gmail account. They really aren't the be all and end all of spam blocking. My non-gmail account (on an address that has been around for almost a decade before gmail existed) running a more modern anti spam solution, not nearly as bad.