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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by redthrow on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:10AM (#20611943)
> Yahoo Mail is an underdog too: It represents 6.3 percent of email clients, versus Apple’s 43.6 percent, Google’s 30.3 percent, and Microsoft’s 11.4 percent

When I read this I thought this Apple's 40%+ email share can't possibly be true and I read the linked article and realized if an iPhone user is reading their yahoo.com or hotmail.com email on the Mail app on their phone, it counts as an "iPhone email", so this number is meaningless, although it's probably true that Yahoo email has a smaller share than Hotmail or Gmail.

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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by keyserzose on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:17AM (#20611976)
It’s referring to email clients.
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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by iforgotpassword on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:17AM (#20612258)
I wasn't even aware they have a client, I thought it's just the web view.
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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by mbel on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:41AM (#20612671)
The web view is the email client they provide. The statistic shows how people access their email account, not where it's hosted.
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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by GoToRO on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:56AM (#20613008)
Android client it's quite good.
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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by gdfasfklshg4 on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:03AM (#20613045)
A web view is a client.
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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by reaperducer on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:57AM (#20614686)
The key word in that sentence is "client," as in "program." You're thinking "provider" or "user."
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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by bgdnyxbjx on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:36AM (#20614533)
Yeh it seems weird to mix clients and services together. Apple’s numbers are almost entirely for a mail client, while google and yahoo are all a service. Who knows what they mean by Microsoft but it seems like their are counting outlook.com service numbers but not Outlook client numbers.
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