> Push notifications, essential for seeing mail "in time", are a proprietary, inconsistent mess.
There isn't any such thing as "in time" for email, and there's no provision for "push notifications". I imagine parent is describing a web UI; webmail interfaces generally poll an IMAP server. Just like my desktop mail client.
> replies that don't involve sending hundreds of pages back and forth
That's not a problem with email; that's a user-education problem. Trim and contextualize.
There isn't any such thing as "in time" for email, and there's no provision for "push notifications". I imagine parent is describing a web UI; webmail interfaces generally poll an IMAP server. Just like my desktop mail client.
> replies that don't involve sending hundreds of pages back and forth
That's not a problem with email; that's a user-education problem. Trim and contextualize.