@leoncowle @Gartenberg @anildash if we reached the trough of disillusionment this quickly, could the plateau also arrive sooner than we expect?

As we get past the tech's growing pains, and as we see it permeate business and society, I suspect we'll all look back and remember the dawn of 2023 as a sea change.

When I watch the toddlers in my family using iPads, I can only imagine what life will be like when this type of HCI is as commonplace (and as much of a crutch) as goog search & maps.

@m3sweatt @atpfm thx M3. MacBook has been my daily carry since, as a dev, needing Xcode.

The "New Outlook" seems to have removed all support for local message store and PST import/export.

While reverting to the "Old" UI does bring back those features (while it lasts), that old version's Search is nonfunctional when using a modern MacOS.

It's a cloud-centric world, and the writing appears to be on the wall that PST is no longer a priority. Hence this Q.

@judell I may be in a minority, but I think the three-legged stool of where we ended up in email isn't a horrible end-state: two players who've built viable sustainable businesses competing for customers, plus a range of smaller players (fastmail, hey, ..) serving those with varying preferences.

When things get difficult (identity, moderation, monetization), rather than to see the decentralization experiment fail I'd be comfortable with its tipping into a more sustainable, polycentric form.