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If it's an oligopoly and presumably throwing off cash, what's stopping anyone from creating their own transactional email service? Answer: It's very difficult.
by ttul 7y ago
If it's an oligopoly and presumably throwing off cash, what's stopping anyone from creating their own transactional email service?
Answer: It's very difficult. Email is adversarial. Getting to the inbox is incredibly difficult to do _at scale_.
- NightlyDev 7y agoA private service where you are very sure that subscribers wants and opens the mail? Easy. A public service where a lot will be spam and unsolicited emails? Must be hell to run.