For sure. Unlike the RIM story of yesterday, he isn't claiming it's dead. He just talks about the decline and fall. And I think there's a lot of truth to it. I

For sure. Unlike the RIM story of yesterday, he isn't claiming it's dead. He just talks about the decline and fall. And I think there's a lot of truth to it. I don't quite buy the junk mail argument -- I publicly publish my email address everywhere because junk mail is generally a solved problem -- however I just think there are a lot of other options that have added value or lower friction. A big personal use of email previously (5+ years ago) was the sending of pictures. You know -- the relative that sends you the 20 5MB pictures. Thankfully that is a thing of the past now, and people either post them on Facebook, Flickr, etc. How about sharing other types of files? It was a major problem when Outlook started banning a lot of file types because that impeded how a lot of people used email. Now every uses Dropbox and other avenues to distribute files. Perhaps the reality is just that email was, for a time, used for a lot of things that it wasn't appropriate for, and now it's back to its core value.