Because email is a decades old technology that, thanks to its decentralization and such a wide spread usage, is impossible to improve. I highly recommend this

Because email is a decades old technology that, thanks to its decentralization and such a wide spread usage, is impossible to improve. I highly recommend this blog post about a guy trying to make its own email client and failing to do so miserably because emails are such a mess : http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/02/email_overload_building_my_own_email_app_to_reach_inbox_zero.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/02/... Edit: removed the Pocket redirect from the URL.