Email's slow decent

1. Email started out as a thing that people would just talk to people
2. Email started to be used for work
3. Then people realized that they could advertise to people via Email
4. People realized that this was a valuable attention real estate and notifications stared to go there too
5. Gmail tried to differentiate the different types of emails, but to poor success
6. Gmail stopped innovating and even killed of it's internal competitor "Inbox"
7. HEY came along and fixed a ton of problems that it caused

Reasons Email failed:

• There's no differentiation between emails that have to be read now and those that can be read whenever (newsletters) (see: divides things that are different)
• Email lacks transparency because of the reply all problem

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