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Re:Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users... by chancho on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @10:41PM (#3398505)
Because Google has a monopoly on non-shitty free email with GMail, in the same way that Microsoft has (had?) a monopoly on hardware-independent operating systems with DOS/Windows. (I wish I was really being sarcastic, you know because there are actually a billion web-based e-mail alternatives besides GMail that actually don't suck... right? Anybody know of any? At this point I'm earnestly inquiring.)
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Re:Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users... by onemoreact on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @12:03AM (#3398678)
Gmail might be 'the best', but not enough to get a everyone to switch. So, IMO it's a question of where your suck threshold than anything specifically wrong with Hotmail / yahoo.
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