On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com wrote:
I for one use GMail for my email needs, and I'm as far from an e-mail noob as you can get (started with Delphi on-line service in the late 1980s, then moved to FidoNet style echomail boards, then moved to CompuServe, then to pop-3 email, then to IMAP, and now I use web based GMail almost exclusively.
GMail serves me (and I guess most other people) because:
- It allows to access my account from anywhere (any machine on my LAN).
- I don't have to deal with local email backups (yes, I'm putting a lot of
faith in the cloud, albeit making a local backup is on my to-do list) 3. I don't have to delete e-mail (I'm a data hoarder, I have every e-mail received/sent from 2004 to this date, and it serves me well for research purposes, often more than not, the answer is already in my GMail account) 4. I pay Google for additional storage
And with one account, you have entire Google from Youtube to Plus etc..etc...Google s the greatest search engine! This is fair enough to use Gmail even when one or two downsides exist.
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:53 AM, AP worldwithoutfences@gmail.com wrote:
And with one account, you have entire Google from Youtube to Plus etc..etc..
That's one thing I don't like, actually. Google is now constantly annoying me to select which profile I use, after pestering me for months to get a Unified login, I said I don't want, (repeatedly) so now I have separate profiles (identities, the one for Youtube with a nickname rather than my real name,and that's the way I like it).
.Google s the greatest search engine!
That's as far as I'd go. I completely resent Google's taking over of the software landscape with their braindead user interfaces (Chrome), their needless "inventions" (spdy protocol to replace http), their forking of Java (Dalvik), and increasing Android dominant position in the mobile OS landscape (I'd rather see Jolla's Sailfish OS win).
Ok, enough drifting off topic from this side. ;)
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