What If? The Future of AOL Mail Under Bending Spoons

Last October, Yahoo sold AOL to the Italian company Bending Spoons for approximately $1.5 billion (as reported by Forbes and others). If you're asking yourself, "What is Bending Spoons?" you aren't alone. They are a tech company known for acquiring well-known digital products and platforms (like Evernote and Meetup) and aggressively restructuring them for efficiency.But for those of us in the land of email and deliverability, the biggest question on our minds is: What will become of AOL Mail? Let’s play a game of "what if" and look at four possible directions the new owners could take with iconic aol.com inboxes.1. Nothing! (The Yahoo Backend Remains)This is perhaps the most logical and least disruptive path. Bending Spoons might own the AOL brand, but they don't necessarily have to run the email servers. Yahoo already acts as the backend infrastructure for several major mailbox providers, including Frontier and AT&T. Comcast has been actively transitioning their user inboxes to Yahoo…