> They have been doing this since the beginning, with a web interface, with no delete button initially just archive, with no folders just tags and filters, etc.

> They have been doing this since the beginning, with a web interface, with no delete button initially just archive, with no folders just tags and filters, etc. If that's the evidence for your proposition, it's a little hollow. "No folders just tags and filters"? Labels are a conceptual superset of folders - if you only ever give an email one label, they reduce to folders. That's your choice. Arguing that restricting you to using one label per email would somehow give you more freedom is pretty backwards. (The logic for the one-folder restriction is the real-world metaphor: you can only put a physical letter in a single folder. But we're in 2013, why argue that you should be restricted to filing methods that work for physical letters?) Delete button is two to the right of archive. On the android client you can switch up the toolbar button set in settings (delete, archive, or both). (And I'm not sure how their having "a web interface" is even supposed to be a criticism. Of course they have a web interface).