We should be able to port emails like we are with phone numbers. Keep your @gmail.com address but host it with another provider.
We already have that if the e-mail address was "yours" to begin with, you can buy domains and keep using e-mail addresses pointing to them, moving to whatever e-mail provider you prefer this decade.
You have no ownership claim to the domain gmail.com. You are merely renting it, and for free no less!
Stop acting entitled. If you want ownership, the option already exists, and it’s easy: get your own domain.
That’s yours to keep and manage as you see fit, with Gmail a possible service attached to it as you see fit.
But your attitude seems to convey that you find this behavior acceptable.
The majority of people don't have the tech know how to do what you're saying. Are we to leave them unrepresented and vulnerable? How many other people has this happened to that haven't been able to file bug reports on Github?
The solution here isn't a fine. Companies just laugh at those and continue on with business as usual. The real fix is to take Gmail (and the domain) away from Google.
I'll be voting for legislators with the nerve to do this.
Irrelevant, and also true of phone numbers (not accounts, numbers).
> Stop acting entitled. If you want ownership, the option already exists, and it’s easy: get your own domain.
You and I can do that easily. Doesn’t mean other people can. Division of skills and focusing on what you’re good at is a foundational principal of our global economy.
On the other hand, making a thing available at below cost so as to push the competition out of business sounds to me like an “unfair monopoly”.
No one is stopping anyone from paying Fastmail or using a slew of other services than Google, other than people’s unwillingness to pay for things.
A natural monopoly exists anywhere there are extremely high infrastructure costs, such as running pipes and wires to every home. The same thing exists with mobile networks, as it requires towers everywhere.
And that’s without roaming, which I don’t understand, as it means I have cheaper mobile minutes/texts/data in the USA and Germany than most locals.