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The hardest part of 'de-googling' is the stranglehold it has on email. Between them and microsoft, I've only seen a few companies (small to medium size) that don't use one of those two as the email. It's mind-boggling. If either of them ever got testy, they could bring entire sectors down just by using the information stored in emails on.