Someone else doesn’t like Google Suggest and GMail either
It looks like I’m not the only one who thinks Google’s web apps are driving technology backwards. Charlie Hayes has posted his own thoughts on Google and rich web apps, called “Rich web apps, GMail, and Suggest get bashed like none other, for good reason”.
Charlie makes some points that I hadn’t thought of, about what happens to your webmail when your Internet connection is down, and that we all have 1GB free on our home computers, and he explains a bunch of other reasons why native applications are often easier to use.
January 28th, 2005 at 7:30 am
I also doesn’t have a tendency towards GMail. Why 1 GB of online space? Who can process this? Why another email provider? I already have enough.
Three times when I sent a mail with attachment to persons with a GMail account, the mail returned because of the attachment.
January 28th, 2005 at 8:15 am
GMail Unavailable—Cross Your Fingers
“Cross your fingers” is what GMail suggests when it has a server error.
January 28th, 2005 at 2:31 pm
Don’t entrust your e-mail to a “BETA” service from a company with a reputation of never taking things out of beta (Google News, and don’t give me the false “they’re not legally allowed to take it out of beta” argument) and putting things back into beta with fewer features (Google Groups).
GMail is a fun toy, but it is no replacement for any working mail account.