Google’s
senior vice president of products Sundar Pichai today announced that Gmail now
has a total of 900 million users at the company’s annual I/O developers
conference. That’s up from 425 million in 2012, the last time the company
updated its official Gmail users stats. Pichai also noted that 75 percent of
these Gmail users now access their accounts on mobile devices.
When
Google last updated its numbers, Gmail became the most popular email service in
the U.S. after passing Hotmail (now Outlook.com), which had long held on to the
number one spot. Sadly, most of Google’s competitors haven’t updated their user
numbers in quite a while. Chances are, though, that Gmail is still at the top
of the pack.