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Re:Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails by pmart123 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @02:56PM (#20338247)
While I don’t know about the company traction, or sales tactics, I think it is fair to assume the feature set on email can be fairly easily replicated by the big players if they want to. Gmail added a lot of the Boomerang features as well as suggested autocomplete, etc. pretty quickly IMO.
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Re:Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails by graeme on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @03:16PM (#20338448)
1. It looks years for gmail to copy boomerang

2. Gmail has no desktop app. It's reasonably fast, but not as fast as Superhuman.

3. Superhuman is a niche app, gmail caters to everyone. They can't reorient gmail around a tiny, high revenue portion of users

4. Gmail's iphone/ios apps lack the vast majority of desktop gmail's customizability features

The competitor to Superhuman would be a similar niche app, not gmail itself.

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