> I am not sure the backslash would be big if Gmail said that a year from now you would have to pay $9.99 per month I think approximately 95% of all Gmail user

> I am not sure the backslash would be big if Gmail said that a year from now you would have to pay $9.99 per month I think approximately 95% of all Gmail users would leave. Regular people are accustomed to paying nothing for things like email. And if I have to pay for email, I am not paying Google for it, especially not twice the cost of Fastmail.