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Gmail has no soul. It has positive utility for people who use it. And this is not related to the main article.
by parka 17y ago
Gmail has no soul. It has positive utility for people who use it.
And this is not related to the main article.
- gfodor 17y agoYes, it is. See the point about data. It sounds to me like if you have an opinion about something drawn from common sense or intuition, it's necessarily shunned because you cannot point to some user statistics to back it up. This thinking in general is a decent idea, but Google I think goes too far -- my data for this opinion is the "utility" feel of the products they create, as you said. They're useful, but there's no free lunch: this methodology has its own set of tradeoffs. I thought I could be brief in explaining this thought but I guess not considering the downvotes.