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Gmail is faster. The search is better. It is far, FAR more configurable. I especially like the 'space density' option so I can have tons of content on the screen instead of whitespace. To me, the more email looks like Excel, the better.
Also I don't like bright white light blasting into my face all day long, so I appreciate that it has a dark theme. What I don't like about Gmail is its invasiveness. Some people will see this as a feature, but to me it is creepy that things in my email automatically end up in my calendars, maps, reminders, etc. Even if I did want this (I don't), it is problematic because my email address happens to be a word that is occasionally typed by random people accidentally when they are trying to enter their address. So I end up with all kinds of email from people all over the world, which is a problem.
For example when someone buys an airline ticket and the email gets sent to me, it ends up on my calendar. Then I get reminders to catch their flight, with directions to drive thousands of miles to the airport they are leaving from, and the time I need to leave my home in order to make their flight. AM has is broken down pretty well, it's speed/features (Gmail) vs. much less invasiveness (iCloud).
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We use Gmail, but it's a GSuite business account so we don't have any of the ads and whatnot. You.could. always just setup a business account, I mean, it doesn't require any kind of validation, just your own domain.
Get GlennsterIsAwesome.com registered with someone cheap and good like Hover, and for $5/month you can have a Gmail account, with something like 30GB of storage, plus tons of other services and whatnot (even if you don't use the whatnot, it's still pretty cost effective). Gmail is faster. The search is better. It is far, FAR more configurable.
I especially like the 'space density' option so I can have tons of content on the screen instead of whitespace. To me, the more email looks like Excel, the better. Also I don't like bright white light blasting into my face all day long, so I appreciate that it has a dark theme. What I don't like about Gmail is its invasiveness. Some people will see this as a feature, but to me it is creepy that things in my email automatically end up in my calendars, maps, reminders, etc. Even if I did want this (I don't), it is problematic because my email address happens to be a word that is occasionally typed by random people accidentally when they are trying to enter their address. So I end up with all kinds of email from people all over the world, which is a problem.
For example when someone buys an airline ticket and the email gets sent to me, it ends up on my calendar. Then I get reminders to catch their flight, with directions to drive thousands of miles to the airport they are leaving from, and the time I need to leave my home in order to make their flight.
Click to expand.Weird, I haven't had that experience. I use gmail as my primary now because of the filtering and custom domain name, but since I'm deep in the Apple ecosystem, I'd probably jump ship if Apple gets their email filtering act together. Also, with Google apps I was able to write and schedule a script to automatically delete old email from my 'deal' email subscriptions.
Newsletters with 'deals' get dumped in a Subscriptions folder, and the script deletes the ones more than thirty days old.It runs on Google's server's not on my computers. With Apple email, I'd need to write the same script but also leave a computer on running Apple Mail for the script to work.
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