i fail to see the point of hyping sparrow .. it seems like just another email app.. make mail works fine for me..
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Alternative Email Client Sparrow Acquired by Google
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i fail to see the point of hyping sparrow .. it seems like just another email app.. make mail works fine for me..
Anyone else hearing that "wha wha whaaaaaaaaa" music in their heads?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5atPYaxX0lM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5atPYaxX0lM
really hope it doesn't get left and forgotten or worse: changes that make the app too google-centric. i've been using the Mac and iOS versions since they were released and they're great for what i need/want out of an email client. really hope google doesn't mess it up.
Well, that sucks. Google has an unfortunate history of killing most of its acquisitions.
Or mucking them up, like with YouTube.
Sparrow just sent that email to its customers:
Hello,
We're excited to let you know that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! You can view our public announcement here, but I wanted to reach out directly to make sure you were aware of the news.
We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as well be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps.
Its been an honor and a pleasure to build products for all of our wonderful users who have supported us over the years. We can't thank you enough.
We look forward to working on some new and exciting projects at Google!
Dom Leca
CEO
Sparrow
Hello,
We're excited to let you know that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! You can view our public announcement here, but I wanted to reach out directly to make sure you were aware of the news.
We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as well be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps.
Its been an honor and a pleasure to build products for all of our wonderful users who have supported us over the years. We can't thank you enough.
We look forward to working on some new and exciting projects at Google!
Dom Leca
CEO
Sparrow
Ah, the classic mindless paranoia. Two things:
1. Everyday, billions of emails are exchanged through Gmail. Believe me, Google has better things to do than monitor what grandpa wrote to you.
2. If you are so worried about your emails being monitored, why are you using Gmail in the first place?
Well, that's the end of that. I don't want Google to have more information about me. Time to switch back to Mail.
My experience with the desktop version of Sparrow was not so great, and I went back to using Mail.app and GMail web client. Granted, one of my major issues was only on Snow Leopard, but they refused to fix it and said to upgrade to Lion (this was last year, when Lion was still fresh). I had other issues that I don't think were Snow Leopard specific. Maybe now they will have more resources to address bugs...
+1, better point
If you don't think that they're using all of that e-mail data to make money you're deluded. Why contribute personal information to some company's data mine if you don't have to?
Why do you assume CylonGlitch is using Gmail?
It's not about the monitoring for me. I left G-Mail when they started tying it in with Google+ more and more. I don't want e-mail that's trying to be like Facebook.
I assume Sparrow will eventually move that way too which would be the reason for my disinterest in it. I can't speak for that other poster, but that's what would scare me away.
One company makes money by selling fancy toys. The other makes money by using the info you give them. This is not paranoia, this is their stated business plans.
If you somehow thought those were the same business model I could see why you'd be confused, but surely that's not the case, right?
If Apple wanted their Mail client to be like Sparrow, they would just make it more like Sparrow. There is nothing so special about Sparrow that Apple couldn't easily replicate it if they wanted to.
Apple isn't my e-mail provider. Unlike Google, they're also not an advertising agency. I trust that Apple isn't looking at the content of my e-mail. I do not extend that trust to Google.
This could mean Sparrow will be the new official mobile Gmail app. This is good, no? Also - with Google's servers we could finally get PUSH on Sparrow...