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Google has always favored many-to-many "tags" over one-to-many "folders". Gmail brought that distinction to the mainstream. Circles are really just tags on th
by sunchild 15y ago
Google has always favored many-to-many "tags" over one-to-many "folders". Gmail brought that distinction to the mainstream. Circles are really just tags on the user object, in the end.
- edanm 15y agoI'm not sure just how "mainstream" Gmail is. I've always heard that only 5% of email users use Gmail, but I don't actually have a source. Does seem to be accurate based on my (non-techie) friends.
- clobber 15y agoI have an email list with 304,985 contacts: 34.5% yahoo.com 24.0% other 13.9% aol.com 9.9% gmail.com 2.6% comcast.net 2.2% msn.com
- phlux 15y ago0% hotmail?
- kenjackson 15y agoReally... more msn.com than hotmail.com?
- clobber 15y agoOops, thanks for asking. I left out hotmail.com which was 13% My mistake.
- patio11 15y agoClobber's list is similar to BCC's user base. In particular, a lot of ISP email addresses.
- saucetenuto 15y agoI got curious about this a while ago, so I polled my nontechnical friends (artists, lawyers, that kind of thing). Out of 18 respondents, 100% of them used gmail as their primary personal email client. The lawyers all used Outlook at work, of course; maybe that 5% figure is for corporate clients?
- ChrisArchitect 15y agothink this has gone way up in recent years with ppl with old hotmail whatever accts fed up of spam,more people on gServices etc....more exposure to gApps via android etc (not to mention being forced into using a gAccount/gMail for android things...)
- Pyrodogg 15y agoGmail integration with a number of universities is also a great way to get a new, large batch of young and fairly intellectual people familiar with Google products every single year.