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That sounds similar to the Steve Jobs Calculator Construction Set story (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Calculator_Construction_Se
by nicholassmith 14y ago
That sounds similar to the Steve Jobs Calculator Construction Set story (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Calculator_Construction_Set.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...).
For the 90% of people I imagine until something much better is forced upon them they'll be perfectly happy with what they have, be it Gmail or Outlook. For the people who want a better experience, I imagine a lot of them will have the technical ability to strike forth and do it.
Essentially what you want is a backend message server and then let people communicate with it however they fancy with a high level API they can plug into their widget toolkit of choice if you go down that route. If you're into C++/Qt there's already a solution that does that (http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/09/21/introducing-qmf-an-advanced-mobile-messaging-framework/ http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/09/21/introducing-qmf-an-advan...).