Can someone clue me in on this - people are now standing in line for software? The only logical two reasons I can think of:<p>1) Their backend doesn't scale well enough<p>2) Artifical scarcity to make people think they are missing out on something
I've been waiting for two weeks, and I've finally broken 50,000. I don't know if I even want to use this app anymore.<p>Their rationale makes sense - it is better to make people wait than everyone have a crappy experience, but given how easy infrastructure is to come by these days and how quickly one can provision it, I'm worried they're taking too long and people will forget or uninstall the app. That said, when it finally lets me in, this could change my life and I may not even know it. But at this rate, I definitely won't.
Remember when email used to be a standard? Yeah, those were the days. All you had to do to get your email on any device was download a client, give it your credentials and bam! All your emails. Nowadays we have email clients that only work with specific hosts, email clients that require you share your credentials with their servers so they can poll that one specific host, because apparently it's not possible to write an email client on some OSes. Oh the times.
The author of that blog post linearly extrapolated his wait time. Instead of whining, perhaps they should read what's actually happening here: <a href="http://www.mailboxapp.com/reservations/?p=1#how-were-rolling-out-mailbox" rel="nofollow">http://www.mailboxapp.com/reservations/?p=1#how-were-rolling...</a>