Internet giants: Yahoo, MSN and AOL vs. Gmail
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007It’s hard to imagine that there are some places unreachable for progress in the age of Hi-Tech. Moreover, the more this progress can reduce possible profit, the longer time they are restraining it by all available means.
It’s known that most free email services exist on profits from advertising that is shown to users in the email account web interface. That is the reason why does internet giants of web-industry do not hurry to made the free access for e-mail by means of protocols POP3 and SMTP, because then the effects of their publicity will decrease, and they do not want that.Such giants as Yahoo.com, MSN.com, and AOL.com have many users who are attached to other services of the companies and they are being slow to provide users with such access, just because people got used to use the web interface. (more…)