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Not sure I agree that it was Google and Yahoo's respective security architecture that caused people to switch, even tech-savvy people.

• karmelapple 10y ago
  Fully agreed. It was all about a lot of free storage space.
  • jpindar 10y ago
    And spam. Yahoo accounts got so much spam.
    • yomly 10y ago
      For a long while you had to configure Yahoo to actually store sent mail, otherwise once sent it was gone for good.
• peterbonney 10y ago
  Sure. But all the things Gmail offered were things that probably looked like lousy investments to Yahoo. Why offer more storage? Why have better spam filtering? Why have better security? It all costs money!!! The point is only looking at actual cost, not opportunity cost.
  • richmarr 10y ago
    Yep. Good clarification.