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Elon Musk, aka bootleg Phony Stark, isn't done with dumb ideas. The Tesla chief now wants to compete with Google's popular email client, Gmail, with a new product called XMail.
Musk seems to have a serious one-sided beef with Google, and we wonder if the people there are aware of it. First, it drops the version of ChatGPT called “Grok”.
He has also called out the company's search tool Alpahabet Inc., calling its Gemini AI tool “crazy” and “racist.” He claims he spoke to a “senior executive” who assured him the company “will take immediate action to correct racial and gender bias at Gemini.”
Now, it claims to be giving up its own email client called XMail.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Musk revealed that it's “coming” by responding to X Engineer Nate McGrady asking, “When are we going to do XMail?”
We all know Musk is full of you-know-what and tends to make outlandish claims all the time, but he could be serious about this XMail thing.
If he thinks he'll be able to compete with Google's Gmail right away, he's definitely got some serious work cut out for him.
Demand Sage claims that Gmail currently has 1.8 billion active users worldwide, and we don't see XMail coming anywhere close to that.
Yeah, good luck getting longtime Gmail users off the hook and luring them to “XMail” if he decides to build it.
We really think Elon Musk talks about his a** side like he does anything else.
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