GMAIL IS SLOW Sadly, Blogger Seems Slower Lately Too.

GMAIL IS SLOW.

Here's a feature - how about you STOP trying to be everything to everyone and simply be a good, working, dependable email program that doesn't take an hour to send a message?

I switched a couple years ago - I NEVER had so much hang with Yahoo. Never. Not once. So gmail has better features - big freakin' deal. I need a mail program that works. All the time. Every day. No matter when I need to send someone something. It needs to work as FAST as my brain because once I get started, I need to send this, read that, google that, wiki this, mail that - and if my mail program is hung up on task #1, I start to get really really irritated. Then I throw things. THIS ISN'T A GAME CLIENT. It's mail. E-mail. The most basic and most important Internet service there is - and if you guys can't master it, screw chat and searchable mail and 2 GB worth of storage space - it's NOT as important as being able to SEND and RECEIVE quickly.

I spend $60 for lightening fast wireless so I can download television shows and read BuzzFlash and play BlackJack and READ MY MAIL all at the same time. Lately, I can all of that except READ MY MAIL. Did I mention that READING MY MAIL and REPLYING TO MY MAIL are the most important things I do on the Internet, and that the company that can manage to assist me with that task WINS?

So tell me, google - how much do I have to pay you to get your priorities straight? To shut down the google labs and skunk works where all your little network engineers design all kinds of silly shit like Google Earth and FOCUS ON THE REAL DEAL: email. The thing the Internet was built for.

I wrote to you and then posted this in my blog, and on my way in here, blogger seemed so much slower than usual. What gives, google? Can't handle all the bandwidth requirements of everything you've bought? Gee, I kinda thought we'd have you around forever...now I'm wondering if the bloat-factor that makes Microsoft such a towering giant isn't going to pull you to the floor as well. Consider the consumer revolt starting now.