Comment by newaccountman2
2 months ago
I never understood why anyone would want to download an application to do something as simple as checking email.
2 months ago
I never understood why anyone would want to download an application to do something as simple as checking email.
To have a copy of your emails on your device, for backup, and offline use.
A web UI can do that
A web UI cannot do that. It is simply not possible.
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The comment I was replying to was wondering why people installed apps to read email instead of using the browser based clients. So I don't understand your point ...?
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Because native apps are faster, work when you aren't online, and are all around more pleasant to use.
> work when you aren't online,
...but why do you need that?
Why does it need to be that fast too?
I guess many more people here are real power-users of email than I would expect for a forum full of engineers lol