Gmail, every mention
13 scenes (2021) · ← back to Gmail
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2021 anyone Benedict Evans 36Jeremy White 2Bernadette Kevins 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Gmail comes up
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 12:16 Benedict Evans That the web would swallow everything except email, and then of course the web swallowed email too with Gmail, um, and Hotmail.
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 16:17 Benedict Evans There was no Gmail.
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 5:44 Benedict Evans And it's not that you move from Outlook to Gmail.
- ▶ 10:39 Benedict Evans As an end user, I don't think that saying, here's an Excel sheet, I'm going to use Google Slides instead, and I'm going to tell people about it in Drive or in Docs or in Gmail is the answer.
- ▶ 18:49 Benedict Evans Why is that a Gmail flow as opposed to something that's in the whole platform that should manage that and verify that?
The Business of publishing
- ▶ 30:56 Jeremy White I think Apple in the world is, Apple is something like, Apple's mail is something like sixth, and it, and it's a massive drop off from, from Gmail, of course, and there's a much larger proportion of people who obviously, who use Apple… 2 times in the scene
Paying attention to Apple again
- ▶ 30:09 Benedict Evans So they're all fake, they're all Gmail accounts owned by spammers. 4 times in the scene
Trying to understand Ad Tech
- ▶ 35:50 Benedict Evans What happens in Substack is only in Substack, and of course in Gmail.
App stores: arguing like it's 2009
- ▶ 6:27 Benedict Evans It opens the Apple app, even if you want to use Gmail.
There's no such thing as data
- ▶ 20:07 Benedict Evans So I'm not allowed to use Gmail.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 21:23 Benedict Evans You know, when, when everyone's got 500 of them, and then there'll be a new newsletter tab in, um, Gmail.
- ▶ 25:59 Benedict Evans And then Instagram is rebundling you, or email is rebundling you, or podcasting is rebundling you in another way, or Gmail, or Google, whatever it is, there's always this bundling, unbundling cycle, which is like the great cliche of tech.
- ▶ 35:32 Benedict Evans And I'm going to email it to you, and it's going to be in your Gmail, and it's going to be in your Gmail with 50 other of them, and you're not going to read it, and it's going to be in the newsletter tab, and then maybe we should have an… 2 times in the scene