Works fine on FF on Ubuntu 28.

That is actually very important, there is just too many people that cannot communicate efficiently over email, it wastes not only their time, it wastes everyone's time. (I agree that "be xxx ninja" is not nice language, but still...

for me: what is that "a lot more"? I just want to learn something new (btw, labels/tags are not really new, just redesigned imap folders)

Tags have an important difference from folders in that messages can have multiple tags and you don't think of messages as being in a folder.

Personally I find this quite useful and it definitely improved the way I use email.

Opera Mail had tags quite early on, not sure if it was before Gmail though.

Non trivial statistical analysis of email contents and your interactions with your email to effect decent prioritisation?

That would be my top feature in gmail.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but don't you like idea that computing device is independent from others and does not require network connectivity 100% of time when you want something done?

Depends on the device. How about this:

An extremely thin tablet that's essentially a touch screen connected to your home computer, aimed for use in the home. Tiny battery, very little computational power & storage, hooked up to your own beefy computer.

Edit - intended for use just in the home. I'd want one, certainly.

Too bad screens are using a good chunk of your device's battery. Reducing the radio and computation to close to zero may reduce consumption to 30-50% but it's not an order of magnitude. The batteries are here to stay I'm afraid - until we get some radically different display technology, along the lines of a color, 30 hertz e-ink.

This was more about having wireless power too (part of the parent comment). You don't need a 10 hour battery on something if you can power it wirelessly.

if pCell also enables wireless power, youd just need small buffer battery.

Well maybe sometimes, but given all the advantages of the envisaged connected approach, I'm not sure any more if the advantages of going off line will outweigh the disadvantages.

Do yourself a favor and get of town more. Leave the phone behind!

? I'm not sure I understand your point - I go out of town plenty, and I leave phone and computers behind. When I need phones or computers, I'm generally in or near urban areas.

If Identity Provider goes down, it is a SPOF for the account, but the same is with FB/Twitter login

In Persona, the Identity Provider is not involved in each login, it just signs a temporary certificate which can be re-used by the browser, so as long as the downtime is under a few hours, the user shouldn't have much of a problem.

And if the Identity Provider's gone for a prolonged period now you've lost your identity with (almost) no means of recovery. Mostly, because, while you might believed the contrary, you didn't ever own your "own" identity in this scheme.

That's exactly what SPOF is.

technically - yes, it frees me from being part of (google/fb/twitter... whatever network is trendy now) and still sign in, practically,at the present moment, no - only geeks know about it

Edit/update: if compromised, you loose all linked accounts, however, with google/fb/.... it is the same, but this is less leaky to 3rd party, if this comes as default login, then we would have only a dozen of logins (persona/email, + important accounts, e.g. banking something similar... ), not ~100 of them, thus resetting 100 passwords is just 1 action

I agree with that, this requires certain mindset and skill, however I have seen some dismissing attitude from HR "specialists" and alike while real world seems to be quite different

I have very good economics/management degree from cool school in my country/country group, however, it makes me much better person in IT than persons with good education in the field, why? Because I care and understand much more about processes and people behind code written than average IT guy, also - I'm much more inclined to do my "homework" (research) and make solution for process not try fitting some idea in process thus making it awkward

because of network effects that will kick in when Linux finally reaches market share that has to be respected (I expect that to be somewhere close to 10 %), this is much more important. And now when Steam came to linux, that can be kickstarted, thus never say never :)

Linux has something like 60% of the mobile market already.

I'm perfectly serious, the cognitive dissonance that fact causes in Linux desktop enthusiasts is very revealing. If 'Linux' ever gets anywhere on the desktop, it will be one 'distro' (I prefer to call them Operating Systems) running one desktop environment with one primary application development framework that does so. That's because that fact that Linux has anything to do with Android, or FirefoxOS, or Ubuntu Mobile is basically irrelevant.

What actually matters is the UI layer and the development framework. That's why the fragmentation in Linux distros has killed any chance of Linux taking over the desktop. It's because the things that actually matter - desktop frameworks and development environments - are where the main fragmentation lies. For desktop dominance it's that desktop layer that has to be as unified, robust and compatible as possible.

Here's what keeps Linux off the desktop for most users: the monopoly known as Microsoft Office.

Oh, and games. Definitely games.

I'm so glad to see that, that I am not the only person with such dual reaction - This is sooo awsomme tech! & ok, were it is going might not be so cool at the end...