Since Google decided to unify all the accounts into one , having one provides us with access to all the free services offered by the company, including some of the best known and most popular, such as Gmail , Drive or YouTube , among others.
Of course, it is usually a mistake to think that a Gmail account is the same as a Google account, since while the Gmail account, as its name suggests, provides us with access to email, a Google account basically consists of in a username and password , which can be used to log into the various applications and services of the company.
What's more, a Google account doesn't necessarily have to end in '@ gmail.com'. And we could think of it this way: while all Gmail accounts are effectively Google accounts, not all Google accounts will be Gmail accounts.
This basically means that we can get a Google account using any other email address (such as Outlook or Yahoo!). Thus, after creating this account we can access the different Google services and apps, without using Gmail.
