> by the standards of 1995 are pretty damn amazing, responsive, and beautiful Yeah no. If you had gone back to 1995 and told me that gmail was what you would g

> by the standards of 1995 are pretty damn amazing, responsive, and beautiful Yeah no. If you had gone back to 1995 and told me that gmail was what you would get when I have a supercomputer in my pocket, a super-super computer on my desk, and all web pages are served by SUPER-super-super computers, I would have quit the industry out of depression. It is some horrible bullshit when you look at it in perspective. About the quality issue, no surprise that I also disagree there: the web is especially crappy. I do not consider any piece of software that I use to be performing acceptably (native or web), but there is a stark difference between the native apps and the web apps, in that the native ones are at least kind of close to performing acceptably, and also tend to be a lot more robust. Web apps not working is just the way of life for the web. Any time I fill out a new web form I expect to have to fill it out three times because of some random BS or another. Look at all the engineers employed by Facebook and especially Twitter. WHAT DO MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE EVEN DO? Obviously the average productivity, in terms of software functionality per employee per year, is historically low, devastatingly low. What is going on exactly??