I’m not an aged codger but beyond that I agree with you wholeheartedly: I expect, nay demand, desktop and mobile native applications for email in particular, an

I’m not an aged codger but beyond that I agree with you wholeheartedly: I expect, nay demand, desktop and mobile native applications for email in particular, and just about anything in general. All this “go through a browser” stuff with its lack of locata storage, overlaid interfaces (browser chrome above web-designer's UI), and muli-tasking metaphor breaking (switch between apps to go to browser, and then select the tab you want) drives me insane. Yes, it's a uniform platform and it needs to exist in case somebody wants to access through the web, but they shouldn't be forced to use only the web-interface.