XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:39:16 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
      
   > In practice, if Google withdraw their email provision, it would cause   
   > major world unrest. What they could always do, again to widespread   
   > displeasure but probably would be acceptable, is start charging for it -   
   > initially a small amount, maybe.   
      
   I think it is too woven into their entire infrastructure. I've had a gmail   
   account from the days when it was by invitation. I don't use it directly;   
   anything arriving in gmail is automatically pulled by my regular mail   
   account.  However that has become my Google identity in for phones,   
   Fitbit, and so forth.   
      
   I recently received email that an account we'd created when we were   
   testing Android tables had been inactive and was going to be deleted. i   
   don't have a clue what the password was so sayanora. You could at least   
   get around not having a MS account to set up Windows but I don't know if   
   you could fire up a new tablet without a Google account.   
      
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