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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by wongarsu on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:27PM (#15587586)
I pay about $1/month for a decent email provider. There is also still free ad-supported competition out there. That's not the problem why people are all at gmail.

The bigger hurdle are the email clients. Both on desktop, android and as webmail, email clients are mostly fairly bad (as in: just as good as the one I had nearly twenty years ago). It's hard to keep up with Gmails UX and features, especially since open source software isn't exactly known for stellar UX.

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by KozmoNau7 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:28AM (#15592400)
I have to agree on this. I have yet to find an email client that works as elegantly as Inbox (which is obviously Gmail-exlusive).

I have been considering migrating away from Gmail, but it is a bit daunting, mostly due to all of the logins I will need to update (if that is even possible) and because I would have to go back to manual sorting and categorizing.

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by hopesthoughts on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:02PM (#15671214)
I just recently completed migration from Gmail. It does take a while because there are so many things you might forget to update and then you're like, "oh crap," I changed my email address and for some strange reason LastPass didn't store the password.
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