Re: eM Client email client

John, I'm guessing you're one of those younger folks that thinks along the
lines that the google developers do, I just don't see the google email
client as that friendly (neither do most of my colleagues). If you need to
completely change how you think about something as simple as email in order
to use the client, the client is the problem not the user. I've been doing
email on the internet since before there were clients, it was all character
based back then and far more simple. Somehow I would love the WWW go to
away and go back to the original internet, but then again, I am the troglodyte
in the room usually.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:47 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gmail web clients are
simply awful from a usability standpoint (in my view) so that's not a
solution, as much as I wish it would be. I would love to kick the
dedicated client out, but alas the web based clients are just not there

for

business use yet.

I don't know what other "Gmail web clients" there are besides the
official Gmail browser-based client from Google. But I love that one.
I'm using it right now. I can understand how people could find it
"unusable" but it's kind of like the difference between a conventional
bike and a recumbent bike. If you're comfortable with a conventional
bike and have always used one, the recumbent looks and feels
ridiculous. But if you get used to the recumbent, it can make the
conventional seem awkward and inefficient.

The Gmail browser interface does force you to think differently (do
everything with tags and search, no real "sorting" to speak of). And
to be fair, I do like Outlook for business use. For me, Outlook's big
advantage is that it has pretty strong integration between e-mail and
the calendar. It's definitely an essential part of our company's
infrastructure.

John Y.
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