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GMail won because I had to keep deleting email from my old provider, Google was pretending to "not be evil", and they offered me an ever-increasing amount of st
by vertex-four 6y ago
GMail won because I had to keep deleting email from my old provider, Google was pretending to "not be evil", and they offered me an ever-increasing amount of storage. Then I told my friends about it. Eventually, everyone used it because everyone who should've known better (myself included) recommended it to them.
- twomoretime 6y agoI don't doubt that Google pre IPO probably believed in their motto. It's the investor influence that has gradually steered Google into lucrative but ethically questionable domains.
- FriendlyNormie 6y agoAh yes, the evil voiceless investors steered Google, not the totally trustworthy Jews who ran the company since day one.
- einpoklum 6y agoNot everyone recommended it to the masses. Some cautioned against it from the get-go - and Google was a problematic company with too much power already when GMail was being rolled out.