Nevertheless email stays the defacto standard for business communication and has stayed intercompatible with a wide range of clients, servers and plugins. So this graph could be better but is apparently not a big issue as long as companies and unis keep running their own servers, forcing big tech to stay with tbe standards.
I’m guessing you meant this sarcastically, but you may have been right for the wrong reasons. Look at this graph, by the metric of the way the fediverse works that is a failure. Apple and Google are massively dominant because people don’t want to think about it and most just go with their phone is maker, and there is no fediverse server equivalent to that.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 month ago
That works when the decentralized protocol is the 800 lb gorilla first. You can’t get there with the fediverse in this internet era, sadly.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The matrix protocol is a good example to prove you wrong. It has been popularized in the past 5-6 years (i.e. this era of the internet) it has well over 100 million users and growing, is being used in hundreds of universities and wont stop growing, is being used by government bodies all over the world and has unified most of the software dev landscape into one protocol. Its hard fucking work and you have to start with exactly those groups which are easier to convince and then you can move on to the average consumer.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I don’t think I’ve ever received an e-mail from an Apple Mail address.
illi@lemm.ee 1 month ago
So you are saying Mastodon won’t take off because people need to choose a server but also because having a “default” where majority will ptobably end up is bad - but this is literally the solution to the problem you mentioned
JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Still, this chart looks like it’s actually counting phone apps rather than providers. Google doesn’t have two separate e-mail services AFAIK.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This looks like it’s conflating service providers and clients. Thunderbird doesn’t provide email accounts to the public as far as I know.
zerozaku@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same with Apple mail right? I never used an Apple device and was shocked to see them over Gmail because I thought Apple actually gives email service when I saw the graph.
PanArab@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Apple does give email service for two decades now
zerozaku@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Apple does have an email service, but I think “Apple Mail” is the name is the client, not the service.
zerozaku@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TIL