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Hotmail Mobile Usage Spikes Thanks To Apple iOS 5
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is proud to announce that mobile usage of its Hotmail service has exploded in the past few weeks, and guess who is to thank? Apple! More than 2 million Apple users linked their Hotmail accounts to their iPhones and iPads since the launch of iOS 5."
This is bad news, hotmail is a service that should be allowed to die...
I thought it had relocated to the Internet Archive, along with MySpace, Friendster, and GeoCities.
Or is it waiting for Yahoo, and they'll go together?
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Looking down a few links the reason for the increase is that iOS 5 added support for hotmail to the built in email program.
Things are now clear to me. I guess the other 9 are too busy looking for their geocities page to bother with email.
Email addresses are hard to change. I know a lot of people who still have their email address from 10 years ago and don't want to touch it because that's the email address everyone has and tracking down everyone on the old address would be far too hard.
I can understand the sentiment because I've had my email address for 14 years now and every once and awhile I get someone I haven't heard from in a few years get in contact with me using the address I gave them years ago.
Larry?
Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens with fancy erasers; the 'net is just a fancy backyard fence.
There's no need to change it though, you just aquire a new address and have your old mail forwarded.
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When dealing with companies you get into these odd relationships.
You are competing with them but their success is your success too. The trick that was learned is to mentally divide a company into different parts.
For Apple.
Microsofts OS is their biggest competition for their OSs (OS X/iOS). However Microsoft Office for the Mac is a big push to sell more Macs and a good seller for Microsoft, at the same time there are a little competitive with Apples Office like products, however Apple hasn't been hammering these too much they are selling them more as a poor mans office.
Then you have the free services. Hotmail, Bing, iCloud, Assure.... These are low revenue services that make sense for compatibility with other products. Choosing Hotmail, over Google Mail, over iCloud isn't that big of a deal. Because they are free people can have all of them. But if your device doesn't support it then you are at a disadvantage. Right now Microsoft in the mobile market has more to gain from getting iPhone hotmail users, then apple has to gain from getting windows mobile iCloud users.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Hotmail kills your account after 90 days, so you also have to remember to log in once in a while.
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I tried to make a new gmail account... you know what? They ask my phone number to "identify" who I am and where I lived.
Google stomach is so greedy that they don't get enough with your own email search terms to make target advertising... now they want to OWN your own personal information.
That new policy is annoying enough to make a lot of people moving to hotmail again. So yeah... perhaps mobile is one cause for the hotmail surge... but I guess the other hidden one, is new gmail identify policy.
I suspect it would have evolved into a 404 error.
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'Fraid I don't know. The terms say, "Our reasons for cancellation may include that we stop providing the service in your region or that you breach this contract, fail to sign in to the Windows Live ID network during a 90-day period, or don't pay fees that you owe to us or to our agents." and make no mention of POP. Gmail can definitely get Hotmail via POP, but I don't know what happens if you only use that.
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$150 million, not $5 billion. Microsoft bought 150 million dollars worth of non-voting shares as part of a patent licensing agreement, and also agreed to produce MS Office for OS X for at least 5 years (this was the important part, since many big software vendors had not yet committed to port their code to the new OS), and Internet explorer would be bundled as the default browser for 5 years (I think it was 5 years).
Apple was a multi-billion dollar company with 1.2 billion in cash at the time. It was in trouble financially, but it probably could have survived without that $150 million.