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Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Prediction: #Google will sell off #Gmail. Not imminently, but eventually. You heard it here first.

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klausfiend
@klausfiend@dcerberus.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@lauren Good? The rest of Google is circling the drain with greater frequency. Search is salted earth, Maps is now an exercise in mobile infuriation ... Drive is still half-decent, but it could go at any moment. Mail is the only thing I still use intentionally that doesn't completely suck, and if it stops being a Google product, it might not completely enshittify.
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Atanas
@AtanasE@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@lauren To Zuck or to Elon? Elon has tweeted about Xmail aspirations.
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mrsrld
@mrsrld@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@lauren interesting prediction.
Besides waiting to know if it's eventually true , I'd like to know... WHY would they ❓ thinkhappy
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Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@mrsrld It will increasingly be a distraction from their "AI Is Everything" mantra. But it will take time. Maintaining legacy systems is not considered "career ladder" enhancing at Google, and while they are indeed trying to stuff AI down Gmail users' throats, it eventually will be something they'll want to dump -- or might even be forced to by antitrust actions.
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Chris Mackay 🇨🇦
@tantramar@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@lauren Now that’s a bold prediction!
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