in what way? the ui was and still is as fast as most lightweight desktop clients
> powerful search
maybe, although some clients supported powerful search with regex before
I think gmail was not that innovative, but it did bring everything together very well, in a very user-friendly way, along with some new-ish stuff like tags and the no need to delete anything.
I believe this existed before gmail
> gigabyte storage
was not a tech problem before
> speed
in what way? the ui was and still is as fast as most lightweight desktop clients
> powerful search
maybe, although some clients supported powerful search with regex before
I think gmail was not that innovative, but it did bring everything together very well, in a very user-friendly way, along with some new-ish stuff like tags and the no need to delete anything.