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Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service (www.itpro.com)

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Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service::Claims that Google plans to sunset Gmail were a hoax, so there's no need to panic

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Any of these large business coming out to explicitly say "this will not happen" is concerning.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Especially Google who is famous for randomly getting bored of developing and then suddenly cancelling services

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I mean this would be insane. Gmail is probably the most used email service in the world, and even though I'm not a Google fanboy, it's also probably the best.

What are people gonna use? Outlook? Fuck that. I only use that piece of trash because of my job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah a random website on a DDG search (ironically) that I just did said that Gmail has 30% of the email marketshare, which I'd definitely believe. It would be a HUGE shakeup and very disruptive if they were to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same but with education. Fuck the dept. Ed. Qld

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

LOL they truly suck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

gmail has a fine website but email is a commodity service, hundreds of replacements exist and could be used.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly, it's like if a company said "We're not going to launch a bomb, trust us"... It would totally mean that they're considering launching a bomb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, unless there was a hoax that led to widespread belief that they were gonna launch a bomb

Its suspicious if its out of nowhere, but less so if its in response to an existing rumour

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The risk there for a company is: I had heard nothing about this rumor until they started denying it, and Im far from alone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This is in direct response to a misleading viral social media post that claims that Gmail is going to be discontinued, which selectively quotes from a real announcement that Gmail is discontinuing the "basic HTML" browser interface for the service, now that pretty much every device has good performance on the regular browser interface.