Desktop RSS Readers Are (Nearly) Dead, will Desktop E-Mail (Nearly) dead too?
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007I 100% agree with Read/Write Web’s conclusion: Desktop RSS Readers Are (Nearly) Dead. Since I began to use bloglines, I throw away all of those RSS reader clients and almost never use them any more since after.
Google added offline features to Google Reader through “Google Gears“, I believe more and more online readers with provide similar features soon, and obviously the new Firefox 3 offline support will make this easier to happen. That almost take over the desktop RSS reader’s last base, now all your bases are belong to online apps. 
That also make me think: “Will Desktop e-mail also dead soon?” When is my last time to use my Outlook? I almost can’t remember…Since my last installation of my laptop I didn’t install Outlook anymore. For my personal email, I use GMail, for the cooperate email, I use Microsoft Outlook Web Access(though it’s UI is not very nice, it still far better than run a slow, huge program).
The reason why an online email is better than a desktop client is similar to the RSS readers, I think. Esp. for people like me who have more than one computers and many accounts and wish to access my accounts from any where any time, it’s really a headache if some accounts or data just resident on one specific computer or need some specific software to access, the online readers(RSS, Email) wiped always those headache.
So, Will Desktop e-mail also dead soon?
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