My Favorite E-Mail Done Died
My favorite bits of software are all old. Deluxe Paint for the Amiga was wild,
and word processor XyWrite -- despite its sometimes bizarre use of keystroke combos
(alt-F9 for help? Who's the ad whiz that came up with that?) -- was also pretty
cool. Now my favorite e-mail client, Eudora,
got
86-ed by its owner Qualcomm. Future versions of the client will key off of
Mozilla's Thunderbird (what's the word?).
The whole thing is pretty puzzling. Apparently, consumers are increasingly
unwilling to give Qualcomm $20 bucks a year when they can get e-mail software
for free. Go figure.
Posted by Doug Barney on October 24, 2006 at 11:52 AM