On: Yahoo Mail turns 16, gets a makeover

[computer]

When I visited the article I immediately thought I was looking at a screenshot of Gmail, until I noticed the ugly Yahoo banner ad on the right.

I guess Gmail is succesful and popular enough that copying them makes a lot of sense.

[estebank → computer]

True, came in to say something similar. It looks a lot like GMail[1]. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing.

[1] http://media.tumblr.com/841e692e2c1bdf45eb0c3167146bd142/tum...

[yeukhon → estebank]

It is a bad thing because consumers are so used to that interface and either designers just can't come up with a better one or they don't want to come up with a new one.