Gmail’s dominance seems driven by deliverability, spam filtering, reliability, and ecosystem integration.
Encrypted providers like ProtonMail offer different tradeoffs, but haven’t seen mainstream adoption.
Curious how much of Gmail’s advantage is technical vs defaults and lock-in, and whether encrypted email could realistically compete at similar scale in the near future.
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