And again, I don't see why that's such a huge improvement. IMAP is clunky and weird, but it's not rocket surgery. If there was a huge market opportunity for someone to write custom mailoid gadgets using IMAP, clearly it would have been done already.
A better protocol will only be "better", analogous to, say, the Mac (c. 1990) being better than Windows 3.1. While true, compatibility pressures aren't going to allow someone else into the market simply for being "better". You have to be transformative, and this isn't.
And in any case what's killing email isn't the lack of apps, it's the lack of authentication and moderation.
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And again, I don't see why that's such a huge improvement. IMAP is clunky and weird, but it's not rocket surgery. If there was a huge market opportunity for someone to write custom mailoid gadgets using IMAP, clearly it would have been done already.
A better protocol will only be "better", analogous to, say, the Mac (c. 1990) being better than Windows 3.1. While true, compatibility pressures aren't going to allow someone else into the market simply for being "better". You have to be transformative, and this isn't.
And in any case what's killing email isn't the lack of apps, it's the lack of authentication and moderation.