I think what John T may be trying to say (jump in to correct me if
I'm wrong) is that even in the long-term...when we think we are ready
to replace people's email clients...we still need to play nice with
existing email clients...we still need to allow users the flexibility
of using multiple tools together.
That means that Chandler can satisfy all the use cases an email
client does PLUS it also complements existing email clients.
Mimi
On Jul 14, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
Actually, this is an open point of discussion. There are those
that think that users are pretty attached to their existing email
clients and they aren't going to switch to Chandler for reading
email. Also, providing a rich experience for reading/writing/
storing email is a significant amount of work.
One of our key challenges is that since email is a major input
into the user's life, we need to be able to process those inputs.
Even if we did create our own email functionality inside of
Chandler, I still think we have to think about how to solve the
problem of the user who wants to continue to use her own email
setup and use Chandler to triage everything. We need that bridge
from their email to the Chandler ecosystem (and that's what this
topic is all about! :-)
I guess I just took for granted that one of our end goals was a
complete replacement for people's current email clients.
I think our long term goals should be as ambitious as possible and
I hope that one of our long term goals is a full email client
replacement. I assumed Sheila's email was more about short term
email in Chandler, and on that I agree that we should be trying to
integrate with existing clients rather than trying to replace them
while I do believe it is important that we have enough of our own
email functionality in Chandler that we can show off the other
integrated features that tie in to email as an input and
communication medium. Email is just too integrated a part of
peoples lives that we can expect them to move completely to
Chandler for email unless we have everything they already use, but
we'd loose out on a lot of valuable users if we waited to try and
attract them until we were totally finished with email in Chandler.
-Mikeal
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