I put text in a box. I click a button. That text is transported to people across the globe. Fucking people need to get over some UI shit. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:06 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
i don't quite get why everyone purportedly loves webmail clients so much?
Ease of access as opposed to setting up a client like Thunderbird/Outlook/mutt etc.
I can tell you gmail's interface completely sucks now. Every change they make is a whole new world of ruin.
Webmail dates back to providers not offering imap/submission, no small part because it's harder to force feed ads down those interface channels than with captive eyeballs in webmail. Many other reasons but most of them are the provider choosing/forcing webmail, not the user. Never forget the AOL captive UI.
-- "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.