@gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸🇵🇭 @Aral Balkan @Rokosun
You said you're a tech consultant who has been building email systems for over 25 years and using email for over 35 years, so I thought you'd know better than me. Anyway, since you asked I looked up the actual data, and this is literally the first sentance of Gmail's wikipedia article:
> Gmail is a free email service provided by Google. As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide making it the largest email service in the world.
Wikipedia page - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
And the source Wikipedia cited fo
... Show more...@gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸🇵🇭 @Aral Balkan @Rokosun
You said you're a tech consultant who has been building email systems for over 25 years and using email for over 35 years, so I thought you'd know better than me. Anyway, since you asked I looked up the actual data, and this is literally the first sentance of Gmail's wikipedia article:
> Gmail is a free email service provided by Google. As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide making it the largest email service in the world.
Wikipedia page - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
And the source Wikipedia cited for that data - cnbc.com/2019/10/26/gmail-domi…
This means that if Gmail unfairly blocks your email server, like the experience of many others I've linked above in my previous post, then you'll lose access to 1.5 billion active email users, which is surely a number you cannot ignore. Also note that there is no transparency or an appeal process for this blocking.
Its also interesting to look at the most used email clients - oberlo.com/statistics/most-use…
> Even though it’s the second-most popular email client, Gmail’s market share is still a significant 32.6 percentage points behind Apple’s. But together, Apple and Gmail make up a whopping 87.02% of the total email client market share.
> The third-most popular email client is Microsoft’s Outlook. It’s used by 4.42% of email users worldwide. Fourth on the list of the most used email clients is Yahoo! Mail, which has a market share of 2.91%. This is followed by Google Android, with 1.5%, and Outlook.com, with 0.66%.
See a pattern here? The majority of the email ecosystem (both in servers & clients) is dominated by big tech corporations like Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc who has the money and resources to scoop up such a big chunk of the userbase.
