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Keep in mind email wasn't "broken" when everyone was using Outlook, and then Gmail came along.
by zacharycohn 16y ago
Keep in mind email wasn't "broken" when everyone was using Outlook, and then Gmail came along.
- ajg1977 16y agoGmail's threading and search are awesome, but it's hardly like email clients are "broken" without them.
- danilocampos 16y agoEhh, I don't know. I think just as many, if not more, were using Hotmail/Yahoo Mail, or their ISP's webmail service. And in those cases, email was definitely broken. Stingy mailbox quotas (25 MB!), shitty ads, cluttered UX, on and on.
- axod 16y agoYou obviously have never tried "search" in outlook.
- seiji 16y agoEmail was better before Outlook. Outlook brought us: ubiquitous top posting, lack of signature delimiters, ubiquitous email-as-microsoft-word-documents, multi-megabyte email threads where every new email includes every previous email, and viruworms. It's not really a "and then Gmail came along" issue either. My numbers from yesterday (about 250k messages total): 40% - yahoo.com 18% - hotmail.com 17% - gmail.com 4% - live.com 3% - aol.com - - Other
- tseabrooks 16y agoI see numbers like this often and they make me wonder how active these various users are. I have a few old hotmail accounts and a couple old yahoo accounts.. 3 of which I know are still active... But I check those addresses annually and they mostly exist to handle my spam. Is Yahoo's 40% active people? When was the last time they checked their email? Do those people check their email via pop? What is the volume of useful communications for the users of these various systems. Do your numbers above represent addresses you've collected or just a rehash of the general numbers on the topic? Is there any way to get more fine grained details about these various suer groups?
- axod 16y agoYou obviously have never tried "search" in outlook.