Re:Satya Nadella: “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AA...
by sbierwagen on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:24PM
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While it is pathetic marketing, it predates the iphone considerably. Hotmail started adding an automatic "Sent from Hotmail" signature shortly after launching in 1996: https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/18/ps-i-love-you-get-your-fre...
"Sent from iPhone", and later "Sent from Mobile" were a thing because virtual keyboards were new, and at first, everyone was slow and imprecise on them.
So the signature was basically a way to say "Hey, sorry if this is abrupt or have typos, but I wrote it from my phone".
It makes zero reasons to include an automatic "Sent from <Desktop App>" signature in every email, except for sad, pathetic, marketing.