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IM and email are different things. People still use email because IM is not meant to replace it.
by hobarrera 12y ago
IM and email are different things. People still use email because IM is not meant to replace it.
- Ecio78 12y agoWe use both because both have reason to exist. Since I started working in a multinational company spread across different sites (and continents) I have appreciated both approaches: sometimes the chat is a quick way to ask something, to verify that something is working etc.. compared to mail (that is not always seen "in time") or using the phone (as a bonus points, IMHO for non-english speakers it is easier to chat than to talk...)
- rekoros 12y agoI think IM is a bit of a misnomer when applied to products like Kato. Persistence, sync across devices, and instant search make it a lot more like "multi-person, temporally-organized Evernote, with real-time feedback", which is closer to replacing email than IM. For what it's worth, the Kato team so far hasn't sent a single internal email over the history of the company. (We're distributed across ~15 cities.)