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Ask HN: Why hasn't the email client been reinvented lately?
For a tool we are all required to use but hate using, I'm surprised there haven't been huge improvements in email clients since Google introduced Gmail 10 years ago.
There have only been small features added over time, like inline attachment viewing, and minor UI tweaks, like matching OS UI trends, but for the most part it's the same Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail, etc as we had 10 years ago: a bunch of folders, a single column for the inbox, a box to read or write mail, some icons to delete, forward, reply, etc.
There are plugins, like ActiveInbox and Rapportive, but these can be kludgy or not well integrated, especially now that we expect to be able to seamless jump from desktop to mobile email.
Am I alone in expecting a significantly better experience from my email client than where we were 10 years ago?
Is there somebody out there working on a new type of email client?