Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since
I love email, had a Blackberry and that thing was just great.<p>Today, I have everything I can go to email.  If I could get it all, I would.<p>I do not need or want lots of silos.  I do want one store, some rules, and for it to operate off line and async.<p>Replacing email will take a lot.  There was email before http.  I have seen nothing even close to the simple utility, robustness of email, never mind anything that looks to endure like email has.<p>I have almost all email I have ever received.  Amazing.  And it just works.  The better search is, the better it works.  There are tons of emails to myself too.  I know I can search them and read what past me suspected present me needs to know and that all weaves right in.<p>I wish more things worked as well and like email does.<p>RSS is one of those things, BTW.<p>USENET is another one, but well out of favor.  Fact is, someone could spiff USENET up and it could very easily come back.<p>Async, threaded discussion is amazing.  Make inline media a little easier, and...  yeah.<p>Problem is none of those high utility things are sexy.<p>Maybe there should be a floor that just works well.  Maybe we are not all that well served by all these attempts to disrupt and own people through what are important interactions.<p>Big conflict of interest there, if you ask me.  It matters now, is lean, mean, near universally used.<p>Ok, so what is there really to disrupt?<p>Not much.<p>And that is why I love email.  Unlike just about every other thing I have loved, it will be there, and I will not have to think about it much.  It is awful nice to have something be that way.<p>Nice enough for me to think long and hard about putting it at any kind of risk.