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Re:Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet? by Nicksil on Thursday September 08, 2022 @01:21AM (#32761494)
>Gmail is awful compared to what? I'd estimate a majority of people disagree here unless you're more of an IMAP purist.

GMail is bloody awful. I can hardly stand using it. Been using Thunderbird for a while now and have not many complaints.

The whole "IMAP" purist thing is unnecessary; there are plenty who prefer not using the GMail interface and have no idea what IMAP is.

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Re:Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet? by thiht on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:01AM (#32764282)
What's "bloody awful" about Gmail? All the mail clients look the same to me, you got folders and sorting on the left, a list of mails, and when you click on a mail you can read it.
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Re:Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet? by caeril on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:54PM (#32768275)
> What's "bloody awful" about Gmail?

Telemetry, activity tracking, etc.

NeoMutt doesn't send everything I do to a persistent log accessible to data broker parasites and NSA functionaries.

Not being turned into cattle watched over by an enormous Panopticon is a pretty major Killer App feature.

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