[tmd83]

There can be whole lot of reason for this and it kind of make sense. What doesn't make sense is that for such a big company, such a big product thats the best Google/gmail can do. I can understand if scaling the gmail backend can be tough. I can appreciate gmails feature set of spam filtering, tagging but on the UI feature-set I don't see anything that revolutionary that makes it (according the chrome task manager) the heaviest tab in my browser ~500MB. I think thats to the point of shameful.

I think the standard of whats considered slow, bloated, complex has become absurd. I think if the processor companies today release processors that say improves the single thread performance 10 times in two years gmails and facebooks of the world will eat all that up with marginal improvement in functionality. I'm talking about the client side, in the server side yeah they may make 10 times more complex analysis though most likely 80% will go to feeding us more accurate ad.

[PatentTroll]

That's why fastmail is such a breath of fresh air. It has lots of features and is wicked fast.

[hobarrera]

Agreed. I'm actually really impressed at how fast and responsive the UI is. As a user, it's probably one of the most responsive and functional UX's I've used in years.