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Why is the result of the email test surprising? The popular meme that “email is for old people -lol” (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/email-is-for-old-people-l_b_3...) is true. If you don’t work in an office environment, why would most people use an email with a reply to all or schedule a meeting on a desktop app?

People use, Slack, Facebook messenger, iMessage, AirDrop etc. Even kids often use DropBox to turn in work or whatever Google Docs uses.

For day to day use, my wife, son and I have a shared calendar that we update on our phone. If someone texts me a date, I just click on it to add it to a calendar.

Even when people do respond or send an email to people in their personal life, it’s usually to one person not a group. For groups, they will usually use a messaging app.




There is a pretty steep cliff in offices too.

Even in modern Outlook on the Web, resource booking is buried in the UI — people don’t do it.




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