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Email is where new software features get invented.
For all the changes occurring around email, the experience of email itself has been transformed, too. Email is not dying, but it is being unbundled.
Alexis Madrigal • Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
Email is actually a tremendous, decentralized, open platform on which new, innovative things can and have been built. In that way, email represents a different model from the closed ecosystems we see proliferating across our computers and devices.
Alexis Madrigal • Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
Since the emergence of productivity software in the 1980s, it was sufficient for a long time to entirely focus on features (1st wave of differentiation). This is not surprising as a large value could already be created by adding desired features to very rudimentary software products.
Felix Schmitt • The Era of Opinionated Productivity Software: Superhuman, Roam, What’s Next? | HackerNoon
The app that comes closest to a luxury service that I can think of is Superhuman, which charges its users $30 a month for an email client (which you could also get for free by just using Gmail).