It's effective. They're still my first recommendation to friends and family even though I've moved to a competitor (needed Linux support).

The management UI.

Yes, and I was attempting to explain that Inbox doesn't work that way at all.

Pardon, I thought they were implying Inbox would put advertising in the forefront and hide other, more relevant things from you in a similar fashion to some other products.

I don't think you've used Inbox yet. It's pretty good at filtering. Promo/spam is (mostly) correctly categorized and by default doesn't trigger a new email notification. Once or twice a day I sweep all the cruft away with a single click.

It's aimed at fulfilling an Inbox Zero model, which basically just means it presents an empty or nearly empty inbox as much as possible. It's actually quite good at doing it in an intuitive way.

Important things stick around, unimportant things are done away with very easily, but you can still get them back if you make a mistake or change your mind. Or set a reminder so that it goes away now but reappears later, like a snooze button. Personally I like it and have not used Gmail at all since I started using Inbox.

Our terrible legislation has a tendency to later show up in other parts of the world.

Aeero was party to a crucial US Supreme Court case that was well-publicized in the mainstream media. Not our fault you live under a fucking rock, AC.

I'm a little more confused around the goal. It's designed to share eBooks in places that have no infrastructure, maybe not even a reliable electrical grid. Okay... but share with what? People in those parts of the world aren't running around with iPads.

This is more or less how technology standards work. Would you say the IEEE has no clout because manufacturers ship hardware while the standard is still in draft?

No, the loophole is there because paying taxes on a loss makes zero sense. Did you even read what you responded to?

It's possibly related to the protests in Hong Kong and the government's desire to identify the leaders/participants.

Would you accept 87 years old?

Microsoft revenue was $19.9B in Q4FY13 alone, and $77.8B in the full year. I didn't look at FY12 but I assume the numbers you quoted are junk or the stock would be going through the roof. It's true that Apple is bigger, though.

Why? MS unarguably owns the enterprise desktop productivity suite with an iron fist. Hard to call that anything but success (for him, anyway).