Xmail,Gmail’s alternative is coming soon confirms Elon Musk
Elon Musk is setting the tech industry on fire when he announced on Friday that his X platform, will soon offer an alternative to Gmail following reports that Google plans to discontinue the email service.
Gmail, the email service provided by tech company Google, has responded to a tentative announcement that a competitor email service offering is coming from X (formerly known as Twitter).
GMAIL VS XMAIL?
Musk, the South Africa-born owner of X, was responding to one of the social media platform’s engineers, who had asked “when [sic] we making XMail?” in the early hours of Friday, 23 February.
However, minutes after the X engineer posed the question, Gmail sent out a post on X, saying: “Gmail is here to stay.”
Seems like the conversation around the mooted Xmail and Gmail’s response was sparked by an online hoax claiming that Google’s email service would be “sunsetting”.
The hoax was seemingly triggered “after Google issued an apology regarding Gemini’s refusal to produce images of white people”. A post then circulated on social media sites claiming that the company would “sunsetting” the email service, according to Times Now.
In 2023, Google said it would begin sunsetting Gmail’s HTML version starting this January.
“The stripped-down HTML view of Gmail allows for quicker load times and better connectivity while on slower connections,” reported Forbes.
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DOMINATING SINCE DAY ONE
Gmail was created by computer engineer Paul Buchheit and has been leading the email service industry since it was launched in April 2004, going against rivals Yahoo and AOL.
As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide, making it the largest email service in the world, according to Wikipedia.