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Oh, GMail is definitely a cloud offering---even if they have some offline functionality.

I was just probing the 'content _streaming_' term. As you demonstrate, you'd have to squint really hard to describe GMail as content streaming.

'Offline' vs 'content streaming' is a false dichotomy. There's more different types of products and services.

(Which reminds me a bit of crypto-folks calling everything software that's not in crypto "web2", as if working on stodgy backends in a bank or making Nintendo Switch games has anything to do with the web at all.)


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jayd1611/05/2025

Ok sure but there's plenty of simple video streaming in total screen time, which was the context I was replying to. I never claimed it was a dichotomy, simply a large part of screen time that clearly skews the analysis.

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