I put text in a box. I click a button. That text is transported to people across the globe. Fucking people need to get over some UI shit.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:06 PM, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i don't quite get why everyone purportedly loves webmail clients so > much? > > > > Ease of access as opposed to setting up a client like > > Thunderbird/Outlook/mutt etc. > > I can tell you gmail's interface completely sucks now. > Every change they make is a whole new world of ruin. > > Webmail dates back to providers not offering imap/submission, > no small part because it's harder to force feed ads down those > interface channels than with captive eyeballs in webmail. Many > other reasons but most of them are the provider choosing/forcing > webmail, not the user. Never forget the AOL captive UI. > -- "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.
