Email and SQL: two technologies that people keep saying are out of date and need replacing, but they keep rolling on whilst attempted replacements wither on the vine, with their dust eventually blowing away on the winds of time.
Meanwhile, many people don’t send personal emails anymore and people have switched to a variety of chat apps instead. And a lot of businesses use chat internally, such as Slack.
It’s mostly business use that’s keeping email alive, either business-to-consumer or business-to-business.
Yeah, this whole argument falls down when email is for junk mail, sending files, and password resets, and 6 digit codes. It's by every measure a failure by "product released after 2000" standards.
So frustrating when people complain about Google trying to save dying technologies like email and the web. I'm glad that email is working for you but over here in the real world I don't know anyone who still uses it.
