[bradhe]

Even if Gmail was genius, it's almost 20 years old and hasn't really evolved that much since day 0.

[idontwantthis]

How would you want it to evolve? It shows and sends emails good.

The promotions and social tabs are nice but I’d probably rather those all just went to spam instead.

[FirmwareBurner]

>How would you want it to evolve? It shows and sends emails good.

Yahoo mail is better for me because it implements the use of tabs, making e-mail multitasking a breeze. Also Yahoo's UI is more compact and less wasteful of screen real estate and just feels snappier while Gmail feels sluggish even on modern machines.

So yes, there's definitely room for Gmail to evolve beyond just barebones sending and receiving emails, as there's dozens of other companies who can do that just the same or better, because otherwise why use Gmail beyond the Google brand name, network effect, and integration to the wider Google-Chrome-Android ecosystem which is it's biggest strength and selling point, but as a stand alone email service it's pretty lackluster and unimpressive.

[dartos]

In my life, this is the first positive thing I have ever read/heard about yahoo

[FirmwareBurner]

What's so negative about yahoo mail today? Other than not being a hip cool company like Google.

[dartos]

No idea, but there’s an old adage that goes like:

There exists only 2 kinds of tools.

The kinds people complain about And the kinds nobody use.

Yahoo is definitely the latter.

[010101010101]

They did evolve it with Inbox, and then subsequently killed Inbox to roll worse functionality into Gmail proper.

[happymellon]

I'd like my delete key to delete emails.

Like my other mail clients.

[prepend]

It’s devolved actually. The ui used to be faster and more responsive (remember compact mode?).

[Ekaros]

I remember that it used to categorize mails automatically. Which was nifty feature to me... But I think that was gone years and years ago...