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Does that mean that Google now has no more use for Gmail, and soon millions of people will be scrambling to cover yet another product sunset? That would certai
by ethanpil 9y ago
Does that mean that Google now has no more use for Gmail, and soon millions of people will be scrambling to cover yet another product sunset?
That would certainly cause an enormous loss of goodwill, but.... imagine this scenario:
Google has some slow growth quarters, they need to keep the numbers up for shareholders. They start to examine what they can squeeze. Gmail costs them X (hundreds?) millions per year, but doesn't gain much from it...
Certainly its unlikely, as it is also a SSO tool, etc. Still....
- kingbirdy 9y agoConsidering gmail is a major part of google apps as well, I imagine they're making plenty of money off of it
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- seangrogg 9y agoI significantly doubt it. It's ubiquitous internally. It's a major selling point of GSuite. It'll likely remain one of Google's biggest ad-serving faces outside of Search. They may get rid of one of their applications (gmail OR inbox), but I doubt they'd get rid of the entire platform. They'd lose more revenue than they'd recover.