Privacy

@[email protected] Dear @mailbox_[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected],

If you want to collectively take a lot of business from Google and Microsoft:
0. Create, for each of your companies, one or more APIs for SMTP, IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV bridges, running on customers' hardware.

1. Create a non-profit trade association to pay developers to create turn-key open-source bridges for each platform, supporting each major desktop and mobile OS, requiring no user technical knowledge, and supporting all the APIs mentioned in step 0.
2. Create video tutorials, and written guides with screenshots, for installing setting up the bridge software in step 1, requiring nothing more complex than setting up a Google account in Apple's software on an iPhone.

Do this, and not only can I access my Mailbox, Tuta, and/or Proton accounts in the same GUI app as my work email, contacts, and calendars; as my university email, contacts, and calendars; and as my Gmail I use as a bin for promotional content (as from "download our free whitepaper" or "use our guest WiFi").

More importantly, do this, and I can set up every non-technical client with an equally convenient and familiar way to use one or more of your European privacy-centric services without any disadvantage relative to their current Google and Microsoft accounts.

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