Well hello Mr dba and thank you for the lecture.

You've got half a point here and I am renaming the brainstorm and giving it the somewhat less critical, if slightly more difficult to remember/grasp title: "Bridge the gap between Modest and competing smartphone email clients". I hope this meets your approval.

There I beg to differ. I have read and been told that bug.maemo.org is no longer the place to log anything but actual bugs and minor enhancement request. Some of the "bugs" referenced here have been opened over a year ago and not been implemented. My understanding is that the new process is to expose "feature" requests in Brainstorms and as it takes time to do so, I chose to make mine reasonably open so it can gather a few useful proposals along the way, as has been the case with other recent examples.

I get that Modest developers are likely proud of their work but justifiably? This is exactly how Nokia has lost ground to the competition over the last few years: by being complacent and not bothering to check out what others (including their own S60 offering) have long been capable of.

Let's also take a second to remember who are the paying customers - the numerous people struck in disbelief, contributing to this and other threads when they get acquainted with some of Modest's shortcomings (when's the last time you used a mail client that didn't prominently display the number of unread messages)?

This is hurting Nokia's chance to pull through this otherwise excellent platform. That what bugs me. I do not want to have to go back to an iPhone or Android device because Nokia had to pull the plug on Maemo/Meego, having failed to make the platform viable...