Development on Thunderbird stopped.

[Hal Burgiss]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Sonny Golovine <sonny at tekkidd.com> wrote:

>
> However when you look at the landscape of email, there isn't much change
> going on in the technology. Some of the core technology such as IMAP, POP
> and SMTP hasn't really changed all that much. I remember setting up my AOL
> email address in Outlook back in 2005 or so. The process hasn't really
> changed all that much and neither has the technology.
>
>
>>
The other dynamics are that at one time, if you used the internet, you had
to have an dedicated, desktop email client. That's no longer true. Younger
people especially don't use email as much as sms, FaceBook, twitter, etc.
They might use it, but its not a primary communication tool.

Secondly, desktops are giving way to mobile devices like tablets and
smartphones for some of us. The percentage of users primarily tied to
desktops is declining, and will continue to do so. Desktop email clients
are becoming dinosaurs.

-- 
Hal
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