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kccqzylast Tuesday at 5:52 PM4 repliesview on HN

People need to reread this classic piece from 2001 every so often: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...

As a regular user, you are probably using 10% of all features available.


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wackgetlast Tuesday at 6:02 PM

Don't blame the users. Unless Google have hidden a copy of Crysis inside the Gmail app there's no hidden functionality which should come even close to requiring hundreds of megabytes.

esafaklast Tuesday at 6:19 PM

Gmail barely has any features, which haven't changed since it's inception. Most of the code is in the cloud.

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fx1994last Tuesday at 7:24 PM

This might be true but most of time its just bloat no one uses.

LePetitPrincelast Tuesday at 6:12 PM

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