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Problem is, if it's anything like usual Google features, it follows a common path:

New feature announced --> Deployed to @gmail users -- Deployed to Apps users --> Old feature deprecated --> old feature removed

Google has a feature of eventually forcing people onto bad UI layouts.. for example Youtube.

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But you still stick to it, so it doesn't show up in numbers to them - otherwise they'll change it back to what more people liked - or may be it already is that way?

Most of my (and I imagine a good chunk of this site's readership) access to GMail is handled through IMAP, for one.

For two, I struggle to think of a UI cockup of an email app on the level required to drive people to switch ecosystems.

"Most of my (and I imagine a good chunk of this site's readership) access to GMail is handled through IMAP, for one."

Data? Projecting much, aren't you? My anecdotal evidence contradicts yours.

Hence the "I imagine". I am allowed conjecture as I wish.

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