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date: '2014-09-02'
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title: Front on email
tags: ['Email']
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**[Via Front](http://blog.frontapp.com/email-will-last-forever/):**

> I can't help but agree. There are a number of great messaging solutions out right now but none are as ubiquitous, reliable or open as email. The chat / messaging space suffers from a lack of all of these attributes — chat is becoming increasingly fragmented as companies battle for dominance and revenue.<!-- excerpt -->

I would gladly trade Hangouts, GroupMe, WhatsApp, Line et al. for a unified, open chat / messaging standard.