[swores]

> Gmail users aren't leaving Gmail over this

I'd change to "Not enough Gmail users are leaving over (just) this yet".

Yes Gmail is big enough and popular enough that any one change that pisses off a small chunk of their users won't kill the juggernaut, plus any any one thing like this is so small it won't change someone from a lover to a hater overnight, but gradually users do either find they dislike a product enough to move to one of the many much better paid but cheap options, or to one of the differently-flawed but perhaps now preferable rival free options, and gradually the users who make business decisions of whether or not their company uses Google's business suite also may find that the next time they need to make a decision, little annoyances in Gmail are the thing that tips them into considering putting a business on something like 365 instead.

Personally I'd like to see more and more smaller companies that really specialise and excel in their one area without either bloating into trying to do too many weird things (cough Mozilla) or being acquired by Google/Microsoft etc. but I've not always been good at voting with my wallet due to the convenience of for example having a single Microsoft license to cover everything from the Word license somebody wants to their custom domain email hosting.

[baisq]

And where exactly are you going to move to from gmail? The alternatives either cost money, suck more, or both

[ipaddr]

Free Email providers? There are alternatives some popular and niche. Some cost and others don't. Some offer different features gmail doesn't.

If you can't get off of gmail maybe you just like gmail.

[wrycoder]

A good paid email account is like $50 a year.

What is the problem?

[doublepg23]

$5 vs free is hard sell - let alone $50.

[wrycoder]

10% of an Internet bill?

One latte per month? Go away kid, you bother me.

[doublepg23]

Yes, the masses of the internet who've grown accustomed to free e-mail while being locked to an gmail domain are definitely going to shill out $50/y for...better spam flagging?

[wrycoder]

Well, they should try Fastmail. It's amazingly good.

And, I run my own mail servers for other reasons, but Fastmail is really great, especially for small groups or small companies.

[antifa]

purelymail is probably about $10/year (actual billing specifics more complicated) and that's not billed per seat, they bill on actual usage.

[trasz]

iCloud?