Gmail: 9 years and counting

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18 points·cleverjake··11 comments

"9 years and counting"???

This title has an ominous tone to it, given their tendency to shut down services (Reader, Code, iGoogle, Video, Wave, et al)...

no it doesn't? it is a common colloquialism.

What still blows my mind is how email has not changed for the last 15 years. Sure, Gmail has risen to the top with awesome UX and features such as labels and priority emails. But once something comes out to revolutionize email, that would be the day

They HAD awesome UX. The new setup for composing emails makes formatting text an incredibly arduous task.

I guess it's subjective then because I like the new compose and how I can refer to other emails/do searches in the same tab.

I'll agree with Pent that it's subjective, because I love it too. Wouldn't ever want to go back to the old one.

It had awesome UX until the google UI fascists got their hands on it and starting to over engineer the thing...

Network effects are the inhibitor. Email can't change unless everybody changes at the same time. Nobody will use a new email technology that won't communicate with their existing email partners.

The closest thing to an email revolution has been replacing email with Facebook, where users whitelist each other and use that avenue to communicate instead.

Thanks Google for a great product. Its hardly been down for me and the ui is mostly minimal ( though the new compose ui worries me a bit ).

I would pay for this.

9 years already? wow, doesn't seem that long ago since it was announced as an apparent april fools joke..

After Reader, I'd say "still flying" gingerly..

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