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> It's not positioned with anything like the complexity you describe. I'm afraid that this is, at least to the best of my ability to judge, simply wrong. Gmail
by yew 15y ago
> It's not positioned with anything like the complexity you describe.
I'm afraid that this is, at least to the best of my ability to judge, simply wrong. Gmail is affected by the rules of operation at Google, and by the law. They certainly could address the issue with more compassion, but only at the cost of further increasing the complexity of their system. Everything is a trade-off.
> So it's not unreasonable, as OP suggested it was, for a user to want to use it, without giving much thought to age.
I didn't say it was "unreasonable." Just that the system isn't set up to allow it. It could be, but it currently isn't.
- danilocampos 15y agoOh, I meant marketing positioning. That is, Google doesn't tell users holy crap this is a byzantine system of laws and mousetraps and shit! They just say Gmail is neat, and it's free, so use it. But, of course you're right, the creation of the sausage that is Gmail is a very complicated sequence, beset by both internal and external bureaucracy, to say nothing of the technical challenges in maintaining it.
- yew 15y agoCertainly. I would never accuse Google of consistency in presentation. Consistency is usually very far down the list of things-that-matter when it comes to business; I suspect they're much more motivated by convincing people to use their products. If they weren't, we would all be complaining about some other company running one of the world's most popular email services instead.