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Web mail was great before mobile data became normal - when you used a work computer, and a home computer, and ...remember... internet cafes! But now mobile dat
by drpixie 3y ago
Web mail was great before mobile data became normal - when you used a work computer, and a home computer, and ...remember... internet cafes!
But now mobile data is normal. Your phone/tablet's email is a almost certainly a dedicated app - an actual email client.
Time to drop webmail, and gmail.
- jeanlucas 3y agoI'm glad you live in a place where you can rely on mobile data that much. Here where I am it varies too much and sometimes I still get 3G when lucky
- usea 3y agoThis might be a reasonable view for very specific market fragments. Like if your market is only rich city-dwellers in California or something. But for the general case, it's absolutely false. People struggle with connectivity and bandwidth all day, all over the world.
- drpixie 3y agoI accept your point that good mobile data is not universal. But for those who have a personal mobile device and poor mobile data, an actual email client would likely be a good choice. An actual email client uses much less data than webmail. For example the gmail webpage loads around 10MB just to show the web page, before any actual email content. Also an email client functions with an intermittent network, only actual sending/receiving requires a data connection. Existing emails are accessed using the local mailbox, and outgoing emails are queued until the network becomes available. A webmail system provides no functionality in the absence of network data.