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Let's be clear - I was never suggesting the the web can't beat native. The op was stating that the days of native are behind us. It is strictly untrue. > Remem
by bottled_poe 11y ago
Let's be clear - I was never suggesting the the web can't beat native. The op was stating that the days of native are behind us. It is strictly untrue.
> Remember when everyone thought web based email couldn't possibly work for them because of feature Z?
No, I've always used web-based email clients. Did a software developer really say this?
- pjc50 11y agoBack in the early days of webmail, when IE6 was new and we had 28.8k modems, someone almost certainly said that. 20 years ago we used Eudora, PINE, Netscape's mail client, or (if you were really unfortunate) Outlook Express.
- tluyben2 11y agoPine -> Mutt -> Webmail for me. Those desktop clients were(are?) horrible. For iPhone/iPad I do like Inbox though.
- marcosdumay 11y agoPOP was horrible, IMAP made things much better, but the web clients had already won. A modern desktop client is much better than a modern webmail client when it's available. It's interesting that desktop clients have been continualy improving, while web clients have been continualy getting worse. Anyway, both have their use.
- pjmlp 11y agoStill use Thunderbird. All web clients suck, including Gmail.
- bobajeff 11y agoAs far as the number of products used and time spent are concerned it is. Most of the growth in the software industry over the last decade or so had been on the web.