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"If you compare email to snailmail, the same argument could be made. That it's over the internet is just a preference, why care about email when normal mail wor
by pg_bot 5y ago
"If you compare email to snailmail, the same argument could be made. That it's over the internet is just a preference, why care about email when normal mail works perfectly fine?"
This is nonsense. Email is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than snail mail. Talk to any business owner who made the switch from physically mailing bills to emailing their clients invoices and ask them how much time and money they saved. The value proposition for email is obvious.
- unicornmama 5y agoTalk to 8 year old me who made the switch from physically mailing letters to my grandfather to emailing him.
- capableweb 5y ago> This is nonsense. Email is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than snail mail. Talk to any business owner who made the switch from physically mailing bills to emailing their clients invoices and ask them how much time and money they saved. The value proposition for email is obvious. Sure, now it is obvious, same with the web. But it wasn't always obvious to everyone, although it was obvious to some at that point in time. Email didn't become mainstream as soon as it appeared, and same with multiple "obvious" technologies. Something doesn't become obvious until it is, but at the beginning, there are always people who don't see the value even though many would say it's obvious. My gradma never understood the value proposition of the internet, even though even her neighbor of similar age did and countless others do understand the value proposition.