Gmail is finally in the triple comma club and as a result will be able to rub shoulders with other apps and companies that now have a billion monthly active users. Whatsapp recently got the status, though it was beaten to it by Facebook.
Google reported the figure during its earnings report; the number is up from the 900 million users that were using the email platform in May. With this, Gmail joins six of Google’s other popular projects, including Search, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube and Google Play that all also have more than a billion active users.
The last time Google announced updated numbers for Gmail, the company also said that 75 percent of Gmail users now access their accounts on mobile devices. Since there was no mention on how many now users now access their accounts from mobile devices it’s say that if there was any increase, it wasn’t drastic; it’s possible that the number may have even fallen.
Comically, it was noted that smart replies — Gmail’s automatically-generated suggested responses featured — account for around 10 percent of replies through its mobile app.
According to Google, there are over 1.4 billion active Android users per month, but that number is not inclusive of all the devices that do not use Google’s version of Android, of which China and its 900 million-plus smartphone users make up a significant proportion.
Source: The Verge
