Elon Musk is planning to launch a new email service called XMail , which aims to compete with Google’s Gmail. Gmail currently has 1.8 billion active users worldwide and is the most popular email service. According to the social network X, Elon Musk suggested that his employees might be working on XMail.
On the viral X conversation about XMail:
“Yeah, on the list of things to do,” Mr. Musk responded to a post from the popular account
DogeDesigner, which read, “XMail would be cool.”
DogeDesigner also shared a mocked-up logo for XMail.
This topic gets on high wings on the internet because of its specification and simplicity it may beat traditional email services like Google Mail.
Mr Musk did not follow up with any more substantive comment, but this is not the first time the investor has teased XMail.
Elon Musk did not continue the conversation about Xmail. this is not the first time the investor has teased XMail.
In February 2024, Mr. Musk made a similar lighthearted tease. He responded, “It’s coming,” to X user Natemcgrady’s post, which asked, “When are we making XMail?”
These posts came in the wake of a widely circulated hoax on X, which falsely claimed that Gmail was going to be shut down.
What is XMail?
While Mr. Musk has not shared any detailed plans for XMail or hinted at how it might differ from a standard email client, the concept aligns with broader ambitions he has discussed in the past.
In 2023, during a meeting with X employees, Mr. Musk explained the reasoning behind rebranding Twitter as X, a transformation that officially began in July 2022. His vision for X is to evolve it into an “everything app,” inspired by China’s hugely successful WeChat platform.
The idea is for X to integrate services like video meetings, dating, video streaming, and banking, while continuing to serve as the “town square” Mr. Musk has often referenced.
Although X has yet to achieve this ambitious goal, the platform has expanded since Musk’s acquisition, despite operating with reportedly less than half the staff it had before. In 2023, X introduced a job-search feature and, more recently, made its Grok AI available to all users, not just Premium subscribers.
