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It's pretty popular for email, at 25%+ market share [1]. That's a LOT of information to mine. And point about conversations moving to post-email protocols, but
by ethbro 6y ago
It's pretty popular for email, at 25%+ market share [1]. That's a LOT of information to mine.
And point about conversations moving to post-email protocols, but email is certainly still up there with HTTP as a bedrock standard that everyone eventually touches.
Without pushing JavaScript and a full featured web client, it's fair to say Google wouldn't have grown as quickly and be nearly as dominant today.
As for their move to full mobile app, I think it's a bit of a different calculation when you happen to own the OS that powers ~75% of all mobile phones [2]. ;)
Suffice to say, I don't think Google has the same troubles as other developers. (Exception to security policy, for my first party app? Sure!)
[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/17570/most-popular-email-clients/ https://www.statista.com/chart/17570/most-popular-email-clie...
[2] https://www.statista.com/topics/3778/mobile-operating-systems/ https://www.statista.com/topics/3778/mobile-operating-system...
- scarface74 6y agoThe question is not about how many people use Gmail - and that still doesn’t take into account corporate users. It’s about how many people use the web interface as opposed to using a mobile app.
- ethbro 6y agoYes. And we're both clear that there wasn't always a mobile app version of Gmail, right?
- scarface74 6y agoTo say that Gmail had much to do with Google’s growth considering that there was only a relatively small Window that email was the most popular form of personal (not corporate communication and spam) and that was over ten years ago before mobile started taking over doesn’t really have any basis in today’s reality.