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Gmail has always been a hosted service - not software that runs entirely on your own machine. Apples and oranges.
> Imagine creating software today with perpetual licenses but no updates or sync across devices. You would laugh it off your machine.
You mean like any number of extremely popular software packages like IntelliJ that offer perpetual licenses?
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Gmail has always been a hosted service - not software that runs entirely on your own machine. Apples and oranges.
> Imagine creating software today with perpetual licenses but no updates or sync across devices. You would laugh it off your machine.
You mean like any number of extremely popular software packages like IntelliJ that offer perpetual licenses?