Last Updated: February 24, 2024, 09:00 IST
Musk desires to construct a Gmail rival known as Xmail
Elon Musk has purchased Twitter for $44 billion and now he’s eyeing Gmail with an alternate mailing app for customers.
Elon Musk has made huge strikes lately, none greater than paying a $44 billion to purchase Twitter after which rebrand the platform to X. But it appears Musk isn’t finished together with his ambitions to tackle the most effective and for that, he plans to arrange a brand new mailing shopper which goes to be known as XMail.
Gmail has been going through an existential disaster this week after a wierd hearsay steered that Google is shutting down the large mailing shopper.
News like these are undoubtedly going to scare individuals, whereas a few of them have been anguished with the potential for Google shutting down Gmail. So, similar to that, one of many engineers at X posted asking, “When we making Xmail,” which is nothing however a rival and different to Gmail. Elon Musk, as he normally does, replied to this publish from certainly one of his workers, saying, “It’s coming.”
Going by the title of the mailing shopper, it appears Musk is seeking to broaden the X universe past social media and funds, which can also be a part of his plans. Musk has already added a slew of options to the X Premium model, which incorporates potential to make video calls, use AI chatbot Grok and extra.
Having a mailing shopper in his kitty will certainly attraction to extra individuals, however working a service of that magnitude might be far more difficult than a social media app. After all, Gmail is the ever present platform that billions use for sending mails and others. In truth, the Gmail ID is used to signal into different apps and extra importantly, the one means to make use of an Android telephone.
Surely Google can’t kill such an enormous product, and Gmail did attempt to quell these rumours, saying, Gmail is right here to remain, which isn’t one of the simplest ways to persuade customers about your future, however then Google is rarely value trusting in these issues, as historical past has proven us. As for Musk, we’ll take his phrase with a pinch of salt for now, and wait until the product really goes dwell to the general public.
