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raw_anon_1111today at 2:06 AM1 replyview on HN

Yes you will if you think most communication personally or even work related is happening via email…

You know sending email via mobile has been popular since 2003 right?


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Telaneotoday at 2:30 AM

> Yes you will if you think most communication personally or even work related is happening via email…

The same principles apply to Slack, Teams or whatever else you may use. I don't do work outside of work hours, so what would I know. Email was just the example I thought of in the moment. Again, I'm asking you a question out of a desire to better understand your situation.

Personal correspondence doesn't take many taps to do. It's rarely more than 25 characters at a time in my experience.

> You know sending email via mobile has been popular since 2003 right?

'sending' and 'popular' are doing some pretty heavy lifting here. Reading, sure, I'll buy that. Sending? I'm not sure sending emails longer than two sentences from any device without a keyboard has ever been popular, for values of. It's probably more popular than ever given that touch keyboards make it reasonably possible, but James S. Casual isn't sending a lot of emails from his phone just through the sheer power of not sending many emails to begin with.

And 'popular' for that matter. Possible, sure, but how many people ever even had a mobile device that could send email before the iPhone came out?

I'm sure sarcasm and implying I'm stupid are great ways to convince your interlocutor, or the unseen masses for that matter.

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