Let's assume that Sundar Pichai and team slowly but surely fuck up entire company (in the same fashion as Bard/Gemini) or better contenders take their search and ads business. This might affect GMail product, by either becoming a paid service with much higher fees or discontinued entirely. What would be your plan to get your stuff from GMail and where would you settle?
If Cisco can somehow survive, I doubt Google will go down
Same thing people using Yahoo mail did when that company went kaput. Oh, wait…
Google has takeout which allows you to download all your data. You can do it now.
I would go back to boomer yahoo email
Many mail providers have migration assistants. When I moved off of Gmail, I phased it out over the period of half a year. That gave me enough time to see which accounts and senders needed migration to the new address. I moved due to privacy reasons so I chose a European email provider.
European email provider ? Lol, I guess if it doesn’t work most of the time and most people don’t use it, it’s pretty secure.
AFAIK there isn't actually a network effect with email providers. It doesn't matter if they have many customers or not, you will still get and send email.
The same way I migrated from Hotmail to yahoo and then to gmail.
This is the way
You mean this? Saw it on X
Fake news
Here you go - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/email-and-calendar-software-microsoft-outlook Before thae bashing starts, there are 400 million paid users for this service.
If Google hypothetically imploded, let's bring back Lycos.
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Will think of it if and when it comes to it. At this time this is a mute point.
*moot point
No like they're not listening to it until it comes to it. Might as well not even be making noise. It's a mute point.