Well, app code is streamed, content is streamed. The app code is run locally. Content is pulled periodically.

The mail server is the mail server even for Outlook.

Outlook gives you a way to look through email offline. Gmail apps and even Gmail in Chrome have an offline mode that let you look through email.

It's not easy to call it fully offline, nor a dumb terminal.

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eru 2 days ago | parent [-]

Oh, GMail is definitely a cloud offering---even if they have some offline functionality.

I was just probing the 'content _streaming_' term. As you demonstrate, you'd have to squint really hard to describe GMail as content streaming.

'Offline' vs 'content streaming' is a false dichotomy. There's more different types of products and services.

(Which reminds me a bit of crypto-folks calling everything software that's not in crypto "web2", as if working on stodgy backends in a bank or making Nintendo Switch games has anything to do with the web at all.)

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jayd16 a day ago | parent [-]

Ok sure but there's plenty of simple video streaming in total screen time, which was the context I was replying to. I never claimed it was a dichotomy, simply a large part of screen time that clearly skews the analysis.

	▲	eru a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, it's a large part of screen time at the moment.