[cblconfederate]

That app is called "email"

[aembleton]

Only if you capture their email address which isn't necessary for most apps.

[cblconfederate]

I m surprised by the resilience of email as a communication channel. We need to extend it to carry notifications and ephemeral messages as well. There's no need to lock up tech behind the gates of google and apple

[olyjohn]

It's resilient because it's the only service that isn't centrally managed by one company, and anybody can federate and set up an e-mail system that communicates with all the other e-mail systems.

It's the same reason SMS is still around, because it's the only communications tool that can send a message to any cell phone.

[nmfisher]

And which Apple anyway can now prevent you from doing (by explicitly requiring Sign In with Apple and letting users turn off email forwarding).