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Google can't get Gmail to sort mail properly. Amongst a thousand of small grievances I have.

That may seem quite irrelevant, but if I'd like someone to reinvent the OS, I'd like it to be people that have taken a stance in favour of stable, simple, straightforward software (the people behind Pinboard, Tarsnap; djb... just to name a few).

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I've never had any issues sorting mail in gmail. I'm curious what specific action causes mis-sorting.

Basically, in some views the sorting is by the first message in the thread, while in other views it is by the last message (that last one makes more sense to me).

Even more surprisingly, Inbox (by Google) sorts everything by last message (last time I checked, which was a long time ago).

You can't sort by "From" at all.

It seems like the software you mentioned does well because they are so small. I'm not sure a team similarly small could produce a modern OS that addresses the needs of generic phones (in the sense of they are truly incredibly complex oses, not in the sense of running on arbitrary phones).

Notably, small teams can dictate priorities that don't scale at the level of tens of thousands of engineers.

Tarsnap and djb would be great if you wanted an OS no-one outside a handful of nerds would end up using. There are no shortages of those.

It depends of how you define OS. But OS as in how it is meant for Fuschia is really something the user doesn't get to interact with.

Also would be nice to have a company focused on privacy developing operating systems. Google is the opposite.

That’s why I use an iPhone. Have you seen how mad advertisers are at Apple, makes me laugh.

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