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Google can't get Gmail to sort mail properly. Amongst a thousand of small grievances I have. That may seem quite irrelevant, but if I'd like someone to reinven
by norswap 9y ago
Google can't get Gmail to sort mail properly. Amongst a thousand of small grievances I have.
That may seem quite irrelevant, but if I'd like someone to reinvent the OS, I'd like it to be people that have taken a stance in favour of stable, simple, straightforward software (the people behind Pinboard, Tarsnap; djb... just to name a few).
- lamlam 9y agoI've never had any issues sorting mail in gmail. I'm curious what specific action causes mis-sorting.
- norswap 9y agoBasically, in some views the sorting is by the first message in the thread, while in other views it is by the last message (that last one makes more sense to me). Even more surprisingly, Inbox (by Google) sorts everything by last message (last time I checked, which was a long time ago).
- manigandham 9y agoYou can't sort by "From" at all.
- smallcompanies 9y agoIt seems like the software you mentioned does well because they are so small. I'm not sure a team similarly small could produce a modern OS that addresses the needs of generic phones (in the sense of they are truly incredibly complex oses, not in the sense of running on arbitrary phones). Notably, small teams can dictate priorities that don't scale at the level of tens of thousands of engineers.
- rodgerd 9y agoTarsnap and djb would be great if you wanted an OS no-one outside a handful of nerds would end up using. There are no shortages of those.
- norswap 9y agoIt depends of how you define OS. But OS as in how it is meant for Fuschia is really something the user doesn't get to interact with.
- spilk 9y agoAlso would be nice to have a company focused on privacy developing operating systems. Google is the opposite.
- gigatexal 9y agoThat’s why I use an iPhone. Have you seen how mad advertisers are at Apple, makes me laugh.