> Emails end up as files on someone else’s server.
When I use my Gmail account to send an email to another Gmail user, this is obviously not the case. Many adults in their twenties have never used a desktop email application - at my company the younger new hires need some time to figure out how to use Outlook, and they're engineers. They've grown up with the cloud as a given, local storage as the exception, and centralized messaging apps as the default method of communication.
I'm not going to argue about whether way of thinking about computing is any better or worse, but undeniably convenient, and it's definitely the direction we're headed.
When I use my Gmail account to send an email to another Gmail user, this is obviously not the case. Many adults in their twenties have never used a desktop email application - at my company the younger new hires need some time to figure out how to use Outlook, and they're engineers. They've grown up with the cloud as a given, local storage as the exception, and centralized messaging apps as the default method of communication.
I'm not going to argue about whether way of thinking about computing is any better or worse, but undeniably convenient, and it's definitely the direction we're headed.