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I don't get your comment. Web based email. All I have ever used in my life.

shabda 15y ago
I have an iPad and I have never used mail.app. I use Browser+gmail, so I agree with you statement. Tablet without email is reasonable IMO.
- cryptoz 15y ago
  Does this mean you never get email notifications? In order to check your email, you have to pick up your tablet, turn it on, unlock it, open the browser, navigate to gmail.com, log in, and then see? On the Xoom, it notifies me if anything happens and my email is a home screen widget - the process seems significantly smoother and faster this way.
  - paganel 15y ago
    > On the Xoom, it notifies me if anything happens and my email is a home screen widget - the process seems significantly smoother and faster this way. If I were to have a tablet I think I'd only use it at home, among family members and enjoying my free time. In that case NO email is that important to require immediate action, and for the few, inevitable exceptions (web-server going down, payment system not working etc.) I've instructed my boss to call me on the phone directly.
  - philwelch 15y ago
    Email was never intended as a real-time, synchronous medium.
    - deleted 15y ago
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    - cryptoz 15y ago
      Time changes all things.
      - philwelch 15y ago
        I'm not unsympathetic to the argument that, if you're a manager, you should keep on top of your email. If your work involves coordinating other people, you'll spend most of your time in email anyway. But that's as far as it goes. I'm not a manager. When I'm at work on my computer, I want my email client to not pester me. Instead, I will go to it once or twice a day when I've reached a natural pause in my work. When I'm at home on my tablet, I want my email client to not pester me. Instead, I want to read the news, watch a movie, or otherwise enjoy myself unmolested. If something is urgent, I can receive calls and pages on my phone. My phone has an email client. I don't want it to pester me, either.
zmonkeyz 15y ago
Yeah. I wonder if these same people bitching about no email client still use Eudora.

I have an iPad and I have never used mail.app. I use Browser+gmail, so I agree with you statement. Tablet without email is reasonable IMO.

cryptoz 15y ago
Does this mean you never get email notifications? In order to check your email, you have to pick up your tablet, turn it on, unlock it, open the browser, navigate to gmail.com, log in, and then see? On the Xoom, it notifies me if anything happens and my email is a home screen widget - the process seems significantly smoother and faster this way.
- paganel 15y ago
  > On the Xoom, it notifies me if anything happens and my email is a home screen widget - the process seems significantly smoother and faster this way. If I were to have a tablet I think I'd only use it at home, among family members and enjoying my free time. In that case NO email is that important to require immediate action, and for the few, inevitable exceptions (web-server going down, payment system not working etc.) I've instructed my boss to call me on the phone directly.
- philwelch 15y ago
  Email was never intended as a real-time, synchronous medium.
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  - cryptoz 15y ago
    Time changes all things.
    - philwelch 15y ago
      I'm not unsympathetic to the argument that, if you're a manager, you should keep on top of your email. If your work involves coordinating other people, you'll spend most of your time in email anyway. But that's as far as it goes. I'm not a manager. When I'm at work on my computer, I want my email client to not pester me. Instead, I will go to it once or twice a day when I've reached a natural pause in my work. When I'm at home on my tablet, I want my email client to not pester me. Instead, I want to read the news, watch a movie, or otherwise enjoy myself unmolested. If something is urgent, I can receive calls and pages on my phone. My phone has an email client. I don't want it to pester me, either.

zmonkeyz 15y ago

Yeah. I wonder if these same people bitching about no email client still use Eudora.