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> 1.) Email is the world’s largest platform. > 2.) Engagement in email far outshines apps. > 3.) Everyone else is too jaded to take advantage of it. This is
by pshin45 13y ago
> 1.) Email is the world’s largest platform.
> 2.) Engagement in email far outshines apps.
> 3.) Everyone else is too jaded to take advantage of it.
This is no doubt the same rationale for Square Cash[1] i.e. send cash to your friends via email. I wonder how their adoption has been though, compared to an analog product like Venmo[2] which uses a mobile app approach.
[1] https://square.com/cash https://square.com/cash
[2] https://venmo.com/ https://venmo.com/
- bct 13y agoIn Canada the banks provide this service, and it's used very widely.
- xux 13y agoYeah sounds like a perfect way for Square to latch onto an already-popular platform and ride the wave. It just makes sense. You're already emailing the other person, why not also send money too? You're already reading your email, why not checkout today's news? I'm interested to see where email goes. Maybe it'll become a hub for all your internet activities.
- boomzilla 13y agoEvery program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. --Jamie Zawinski