MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform

Re:MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Ema... by spang on Monday July 07, 2014 @02:30PM (#8000470)

Hi there, Christine from Inbox here.

That's why we're tackling the problem from a platform level, not building one specific product---it's obvious to us that the ways folks are using email these days are so varied that no one thing solves them all.

A better toolset allows many different solutions.

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Re:MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Ema... by JetSpiegel on Monday July 07, 2014 @06:18PM (#8001901)

What do you mean, "platform"? Where's the RFC?

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Re:MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Ema... by pc on Monday July 07, 2014 @07:20PM (#8002172)

That's unfair -- not all platforms have IETF specs (iOS, Android, AWS, etc). You might prefer platforms that have proper specifications, but the presence of one is not implicit in the term.

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Re:MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Ema... by JetSpiegel on Monday July 07, 2014 @07:30PM (#8002208)

Walled gardens. That doesn't bode well.

Still, I understand the nitpick, it's just that there isn't a word to describe them. Open Standards?

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Re:MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Ema... by xorcist on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:18PM (#8002372)

But none of those went up against a platform which did!

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