Many of my friends — technically knowledgeable, demanding email users — use and love Gmail. None of them use Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. Raw user count is the wrong metric; Gmail has already won.

Moi aussi j'utilise Gmail, tous mes abonnements aux mailing-lists et les inscriptions aux sites avec peu de valeur ajoutée. Etant donné que Gmail ne permet pas de trier ces mails, et qu'il est sujet aux faux positifs dans le filtrage des spams, c'est à peu près tout ce qu'on peut lui confier de sérieux.

Google is like Apple in this way. It starts by taking over the premium end of a market.

Bien d'accord, Google a pris le premium des boîtes mail poubelle. Je n'utilise plus jetable.org ni mailinator.com : Gmail fournit un service identique.

What people don’t do is leave it there, undecided. But they do about e-mail. They also do it by paper. That’s why most people are highly voice-addicted, and most cultures are voice-addicted. That’s why interruptitis is so huge out there, because if you have something you consider timely and meaningful that somebody needs to know and hear, you’ve got to deliver it to them by some sort of auditory means, because that’s the only thing they’re processing.

Well, I just go, “Duh! Somebody give me the rationale for this.” And there is none. E-mail wouldn’t be a problem if it blew up like your answering machine did once you got more than a screen full.

Generally I write email using plain text. Sometimes I really want to use HTML. I couldn’t find an easy way to switch to compose in HTML when composing a message in Thunderbird so I started searching for extensions. I found that you don’t need an extension to accomplish this. All you need to do is hold shift while clicking on the compose button (”write” button). This doesn’t work with the keyboard (ctrl-shift-m)

En parlant d'interface utilisateur ratée, un peu comme les claviers d'Apple.