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Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again by sangnoir on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:54PM (#42545975)
Your implausible estimate got me curious; so I checked[1,2] the first couple of result from Google on email marketshare. GMail is 27.7%. Apple has double the share, at 54%, you should be worried about Apple instead.

1. https://www.litmus.com/email-client-market-share

2. https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/most-used-email-clients

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Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again by Scarblac on Sunday December 29, 2024 @10:35PM (#42546193)
That's unbelievably high for Apple when its hardware market share is much less than that (around 30% for iphones and significantly less than 20% for laptops and desktops, hard to quickly find consistent numbers).
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Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again by wrycoder on Sunday December 29, 2024 @10:16PM (#42546100)
When I look at the email addresses in the various communities I belong to, it’s at least 80% gmail, and the rest are mostly defunct services are just barely hanging on. Yes, I run my own email server, have for years.
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Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again by sangnoir on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:47AM (#42547120)
> the rest are mostly defunct services are just barely hanging on.

...and what a miserable bunch most of them were: 2 MB attachment limits and 10 MB mailbox quotas?! GMail had to drag all of them kicking and screaming into the 21st century when they debuted with a 1 GB mailbox quota.

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Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again by mattl on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:59PM (#42546009)
That’s clients.

People add their Gmail account to their iPhone and get Apple Mail.

Virtually all email goes to Gmail between personal accounts and GSuite stuff.

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