Why Email Isn’t Ideal for Group Input

From an Apple support discussion on why sharing documents online via iWork.com is better than emailing them as attachments:

I don’t need to send to 20 other people, then get 20 mails back and read through those 20 mails. At the same time, each of those 20 has no idea what the other 19 are thinking and thus means there will be many overlapped ideas in those 20 mails I have to go through.

That nicely sums it up.

2 Comments

  1. Absolutely agree. Waiting for Wave which will be even better. :)

    my 2 euro cents,
    -Stefan

  1. Twitted by oscarberg - Jun 30th, 2009

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