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You either reinvent messaging or reinvent todo-lists. "Reinventing" an implementation such as email is nonsensical thing to say.
by zerostar07 14y ago
You either reinvent messaging or reinvent todo-lists. "Reinventing" an implementation such as email is nonsensical thing to say.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoEmail is more than the tools we use. Its the nature of the communications - its permanence, the store-and-forward thing, the fidelity (text/mime/images etc), the namespace. Messaging differs in one or more of these. Phone calls have lower latency (unless you don't answer) but higher fidelity - you can go back and forth in seconds. Just like there's a gadget every $50 between a simple phone and a laptop, there's a communications tool from snail mail to phone call/voip filling every ecological niche. So yes, I believe you can reinvent something that's the size and shape of email, including its latency and permanence but maybe with better fidelity or authenticity or whatnot.