The problem here is not that Google started charging people for their services The problem here is not the question if Gmail is good or not. The problem is th

The problem here is not that Google started charging people for their services The problem here is not the question if Gmail is good or not. The problem is that they subsidized their Gmail and other services in order to get rid of small competitors and once they have a large market share, they will make most of their services paid. It will take time, it will be slow but it's going to happen. And they use their large market share to keep all of the small independent mail providers and self-hosted email servers in check by marking their emails as spam.