#“GMail Killer? No way in hell.”
Every time in the past two years that Facebook launches something, they have knocked my socks off. I just don't know how they execute that quickly with such a small team and such a gigantic user-base. Seeing Google struggle to keep up is frightening.
But lets be realistic about theannouncementtoday that many people are saying will be a GMail killer. If Facebook launches an email app that is functionally superior to GMail today, I'll watch the Late Late Show and a football match this week. Yes, I'm willing to risk my mental health like that for the sake of a bet. But then, we'd need to see IMAP, Custom Domains, Multiple Accounts, Filters, Sigs, POP3 from 3rd party accounts, Labels, Priority Inbox, Labs, perfect anti-spam etc etc etc.Hotmail killer sure, AOL mail killer absolutely, Yahoo Mail killer maybe.
But GMail? C'mon, unless Bucheit was reaalllllllly busy over the past few months :-)
I know lots of normal punters who rarely check their Hotmail etc now, they rely entirely on Facebook. But the current app is terrible.If they launch an upgraded email app today, then it only needs to be average to grab even more market share from the usual suspects.
An interesting aside, my Dad asked me yesterday to finally put a bullet in his eircom.net account and switch everything over to GMail. Android+GMail is the killer app for him.