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> Yahoo Mail is an underdog too: It represents 6.3 percent of email clients, versus Apple’s 43.6 percent, Google’s 30.3 percent, and Microsoft’s 11.4 percent W
by redthrow 7y ago
> Yahoo Mail is an underdog too: It represents 6.3 percent of email clients, versus Apple’s 43.6 percent, Google’s 30.3 percent, and Microsoft’s 11.4 percent
When I read this I thought this Apple's 40%+ email share can't possibly be true and I read the linked article and realized if an iPhone user is reading their yahoo.com or hotmail.com email on the Mail app on their phone, it counts as an "iPhone email", so this number is meaningless, although it's probably true that Yahoo email has a smaller share than Hotmail or Gmail.
- keyserzose 7y agoIt’s referring to email clients.
- iforgotpassword 7y agoI wasn't even aware they have a client, I thought it's just the web view.
- mbel 7y agoThe web view is the email client they provide. The statistic shows how people access their email account, not where it's hosted.
- GoToRO 7y agoAndroid client it's quite good.
- gdfasfklshg4 7y agoA web view is a client.
- bgdnyxbjx 7y agoYeh it seems weird to mix clients and services together. Apple’s numbers are almost entirely for a mail client, while google and yahoo are all a service. Who knows what they mean by Microsoft but it seems like their are counting outlook.com service numbers but not Outlook client numbers.
- reaperducer 7y agoThe key word in that sentence is "client," as in "program." You're thinking "provider" or "user."