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Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service (www.itpro.com)

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Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service::Claims that Google plans to sunset Gmail were a hoax, so there's no need to panic

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[–] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why does anyone think Google would shut down Gmail? You'd have to be stupid to think that they would shut down the most used email service on earth, one that is deeply integrated into Google as an ecosystem.

[–] ralakus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Google does have a reputation for unnecessary and/or prematurely killing everything it makes so I wouldn't blame people for believing an email that looked like it was from Google saying that Gmail is shutting down in August

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They shut down services that aren’t profitable. Gmail is highly profitable as it’s an important lever to identify people’s interests, which they use to sell ads at a higher price. They’d have to be stupid to shut it down.

[–] ralakus@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It'd almost definitely kill Google if they were to kill Gmail. Gmail, YouTube, and Android are pretty much what brings people to use Google services in the first place. I was just referencing the people that panicked when they saw the fake email going around that looked like it was from Google themselves about sunsetting Gmail. Google's reputation didn't help quell the panic which is why they had to come out to the public saying they won't shut down Gmail

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well spoken, I mostly agree. Although I wouldn’t go so far and say that shutting down Gmail would kill Google - their search is still pretty popular, too. Their horizontal integration in systems does play a huge role in the search‘s popularity though.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Google shuts down projects so regularly that I just wouldn't adopt anything new they make because it's not going to be around in 5 years. The core products: search, email, youtube, chrome, android, are decades old now and I wonder if the company can survive shutting down any of them.

[–] ralakus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I got bit in the ass by Google when I decided to try using their domain service and they decided to nuke it and sell it to Squarespace. Google domains was so good too. I jumped ship to Porkbun before my domains were completely locked into Squarespace so I managed to get out before it was too late thankfully

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Because there's a viral post going around that they are. They're just squashing this dumb rumor, because despite how dumb it is, it did get some traction.