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smackfu on July 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Persona - A concept email client

Email is the original locked-in platform (can't take your email address with you when you leave), and there is less and less incentive to switch now that so many people are reading their email on phone clients where every service looks the same.

mike-cardwell on July 14, 2011 [–]

I don't think calling email "locked-in" is fair.

If you're using someone elses domain for your email, then you're locked in to using whatever service they choose to assign their domain to yes.

If you have your own domain, then you can take your email wherever you want.

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