Like many things on the iPhone, I realized how much better SMS is on the iPhone after trying to go back and use it on any other phone.

On the "other" phone, I lost all context for the conversation when my sent messages and my received messages were separated from each other, while having messages from other people dispersed in between.

And then I thought to myself.

Self...

that is exactly how mail.app is structured (or insert any other mail application besides gmail here). Why is mail.app regressing towards the old metaphor of an electronic piece of mail with features such a stationary, while the iPhone moves forward.

So I ask the forum. What do you think of conversation based layout of email? Is it not a better route, or are we just stuck in our old email ways?