• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    I like how the idea of Google shutting down Gmail isn’t even far-fetched, it’s just something everybody can get behind. Google will shut it down one day

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      1 year ago

      I think Gmail, chat, and maybe calendar are unlikely to be discontinued because they’re really heavily used internally.

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        1 year ago

        Chat? It’s on its 7th iteration or something. That’s definitely not a safe feature.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but it’s not crazy ridiculous that people wouldn’t consider it.

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          Of course it is. People have really fixated on this “Google kills products” meme way, way beyond reality

          Gmail is load-bearing software for, like, Western civilization at this point

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        1 year ago

        Google also presumably also gets soooooo much information for targeted ads from mining people’s email

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      1 year ago

      nah… some national/international entity would step in. would be absurd to lose the Gmail accounts