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Alternative Email Client Sparrow Acquired by Google
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I use the Gmail app on my iPhone. Works great, I wonder what everyone has against it.
It takes a rather long time to load (much longer than Mail). That's my only complaint. Sparrow isn't much better though.
Quite exciting news.
Sparrow is a good app to have. I liked my limited time with it.
Worried about Google taking your info? Oh that's unfortunate since many of their services are pretty much staples in an average person's life... Maps, News, Images, Search, Gmail, etc.
Sparrow is a good app to have. I liked my limited time with it.
Worried about Google taking your info? Oh that's unfortunate since many of their services are pretty much staples in an average person's life... Maps, News, Images, Search, Gmail, etc.
I would like to k ow why you think that this is exciting news?
From what I understand, the Sparrow team is being disbanded into Google and assimilated into different teams, but of course, I could be wrong.
Yes that's it.
They are a very talented team, and only make Google teams better. As someone who uses Apple products with Google services, this is great.
I use the Gmail app on my iPhone. Works great, I wonder what everyone has against it.
Single accounts?
Well Apple disagreed with you and refunded me.
I never said I disagreed with Google buying them out, what irked me was that they had to know it was being sold when they placed it on sale. To me that was a money grab. And yeah I expect some sort of service after I buy something, not one week.
Expect lifelong updates now that Google is in charge!!!
But why would google want to help making software for mac os. There are no ads and no service that really benefits them. I would think this is more for the web.
When you sign-in to a Google account that allows Google to collate the information from all the Google services the account holder utilizes. The information is associated with the user's name, e-mail address, friends, etc.
If you do not sign-in, Google cannot collate the information gathered by its myriad services. You are identified by your IP address but that can be mitigated by using a VPN or Tor. Ad blocking software does not shield your IP address nor does it prevent tracking cookies from being placed on your computer unless the ad blocking program has that feature.
EasyPrivacy and EasyList (with Adblock Plus). I don't think I'm allowed to link to it but any search engine will take you to it. I use it with Firefox, but IIRC they have subscriptions for Chrome and IE9 (for those so inclined).
Yes, after reading a couple of other articles T-Bird is being spun off to open source dev. Then again, Sunbird did too, and that's kind of withering on the vine.
New Update to 1.6.3
Looks like they (Google/Sparrow) released an update today:
What's New in Version 1.6.3:
- improved performance when loading huge conversations
- URL in subject can be clicked
- date and subject in headers can be selected
- improved avatar in message cells
- improved IMAP compatibility
- brazilian localization
- fixed progress indicator in message view
- fixed crash when loading some HTML messages
- fixed crash with POP accounts fixed
Looks like they (Google/Sparrow) released an update today:
What's New in Version 1.6.3:
- improved performance when loading huge conversations
- URL in subject can be clicked
- date and subject in headers can be selected
- improved avatar in message cells
- improved IMAP compatibility
- brazilian localization
- fixed progress indicator in message view
- fixed crash when loading some HTML messages
- fixed crash with POP accounts fixed
Yes, and...
Yes, and at just about the time they announced their acquisition they posted a new version of the iOS app which does implement push technology.
In the past couple of weeks I've been using Sparrow just to see what would happen. In general I'm very happy with it. Only complaint is the way it handles spam. Yes, you can send spam to a special mailbox once it shows up in your inbox, but it doesn't appear to be "teachable" (as nearly as I can tell) and there's no spam filtration such as Apple Mail has. I would think that most Mac owners who prefer to use Sparrow will want to try teaming it up with some third-party spam filtration system. With this one exception, Sparrow is about as good an e-mail client as Apple Mail, and I can imagine a lot of people might prefer its interface.
Yes, and at just about the time they announced their acquisition they posted a new version of the iOS app which does implement push technology.
In the past couple of weeks I've been using Sparrow just to see what would happen. In general I'm very happy with it. Only complaint is the way it handles spam. Yes, you can send spam to a special mailbox once it shows up in your inbox, but it doesn't appear to be "teachable" (as nearly as I can tell) and there's no spam filtration such as Apple Mail has. I would think that most Mac owners who prefer to use Sparrow will want to try teaming it up with some third-party spam filtration system. With this one exception, Sparrow is about as good an e-mail client as Apple Mail, and I can imagine a lot of people might prefer its interface.
more than a year later, Google is not updating Sparrow for mac, or for iphone and the ipad version is vaporware...
The Sparrow team announced that it would no longer be updated once they were acquired by Google. What were you expecting?
