> Google did not yet stop progress for 10 years in multiple fields the way MS did.
I beg the difference, Gmail have not changed much since I signed up 16 year:ish etc
They are all the same, as soon as competition goes away, this happens.
I beg the difference, Gmail have not changed much since I signed up 16 year:ish etc
They are all the same, as soon as competition goes away, this happens.
If Gmail required emails themselves to be in a special format that broke other MUA and IE6 wouldn't render standards compliant emails in a way you could read. That would be analogous to what IE6 was up to.
Gmail is as notorious as IE6 was for its rather poor support of HTML and CSS in email.
(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
For most services there's a better alternative (e.g. DuckDuckGo with bangs for search, native apps whenever possible, markdown for notes and texts) - in general this was a learning process for me to distrust systems that control me more than the other way around by creating a lock-in to an ecosystem.
I feel it's worth taking the time to understand systems a bit more. Once the learning is there, much of the convenience that Google offers can be replicated through good processes and automation.