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Re:Google suffers from a digital petro curse by zepto on Monday March 08, 2021 @05:24PM (#26392460)
> They're very articulate that they're not competing with Google in any shape or form :)

They can say that all they want, but it doesn’t make it true.

In many ways it’s a pretty odd denial.

It seems pretty likely that in the absence of Gmail, Hey would have a bigger market.

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Re:Google suffers from a digital petro curse by cosmarginean on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:56AM (#26478498)
> It seems pretty likely that in the absence of Gmail, Hey would have a bigger market.

Many people just wouldn't pay for email so it's very hard to say.

And again, they talk specifically about not competing with Google because they realise the disproportionate scale here: https://world.hey.com/jason/an-alternative-to-competition-ff...

> They can say that all they want, but it doesn’t make it true.

I've been following them for years and read most of their books. If this would be IBM or Oracle I'd understand (and agree with) your skepticism, but this is really unwarranted.

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