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You ever see those commercial restaurant spaces which seem like a good spot on paper, but every restaurant that goes into it seems to fail?

Thats kind of how I feel about all the "We fixed email" startups. A real pain point but one I'd never want to tackle since there doesn't seem to be one "I've fixed it" solution.

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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.

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

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.

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?

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

The real pain point with E-mail is we're all drowning in it.

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