Leaked Gmail redesign looks a lot like Facebook’s Message inbox

Re:Leaked Gmail redesign looks a lot like Facebook’s Message... by mrchess on Friday October 21, 2011 @02:09AM (#3138656)

Ugh, I hate these "X looks like Y" articles.

What it comes down to is they are both trying to display the same data (picture, username, message, etc), and honestly, there are only a few ways to logically present this information. Eventually the web will migrate to a standard for displaying this kind of information.

It's like saying The New York Times looks like The Boston Globe (which looks like The Washington Post (which looks like The Wall Street Journal)).

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Re:Leaked Gmail redesign looks a lot like Facebook’s Message... by knowtheory on Friday October 21, 2011 @04:06AM (#3138904)

I'd go further. I'd go so far as to call this article disingenuous.

Aside from a very superficial reading, the actual functionality of the page components for each app behave quite differently, and have different purposes in mind. To call these apps similar, disregards the fact that they are messaging systems in two distinctly different ecosystems.

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