This is simply false, as most mail clients really do support IMAP/POP. The statement caught my eye too. No need to get all huffy about someone pointing this out.
You publicly "malign" your competition in a way that several people in this thread feel is nearly libelous, then get huffy when someone calls you on it. I agree with his view: the conventional (i.e., in the average person's mind) "mail client" supports _any_ conventional "email provider" by definition.
I understand where you were coming from, but the statement itself was too broad, and now your reaction is digging a deeper hole. If a little blunt, I believe the original observation was meant as "feedback" that you claim to want. Nobody was talking about boycotting or ragequitting for a better forum, until you got defensive and refused to respond in a way that doesn't end in a personal insult against the commenter, or a general sneer at the community in general.
Between this and an avoided answer to whether you keep passwords in the cloud you've lost one potential customer.
But sure, take your ball and go home.
To be clear:
- this is a really hard problem
- we're iterating in public to get user feedback
- we're not charging anything and don't have any immediate plans to
- we specifically ask for feedback via <[email protected]>
I'm not sure which aspect of this gave you the impression that our objective is to foist -- as you put it -- "false FUD" on poor unsuspecting consumers.
Sorry to bitch, but snarky comments are the main reason HN -- once my absolute favorite place on the web -- is turning into a useless cesspool.
See you on Quora, where the discourse is still reasonably civil.