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376: ‘One True HIG’, With Neil Jhaveri

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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How to Build a Successful Email Client

John Carmack: Email clients are extremely difficult to build. He says it's because people have experience with them for decades and so therefore have very high expectations. "I don't really think it's possible to build something that could be usable in at least a few, a few man years of effort," he says.

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