Gmail has finally added the ability to convert phone numbers and addresses to links

Google is adding the ability to automatically recognize addresses, phone numbers, and contacts to the Gmail website and mobile apps today (including Inbox), in the rollout of a feature that seems so blatantly obvious that I refuse to believe that Gmail didn’t have it already.
A feature so blatantly obvious it seems impossible that Google is only adding it now
But yes, somehow in the year 2017, Gmail did not have this incredibly basic functionality. A feature that the company — which