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Alternative Email Client Sparrow Acquired by Google

rukkus said:
so.. i'm an android phone user who purchased a new iPad. The default mail client is crap. I hope the Sparrow team starts working on the gmail apps for both OSs. that said... it's really funny how bent out of shape some people get around here with anything involving google/android. it's not nearly this bad on android forums.
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I'm not having problems with iPad mail at all. What are your problems?
 
ELMI0001 said:
It isn't as annoying as Google (i.e. ads), but Apple does it through their own ventures they make money off of (i.e. iTunes recommendations).
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Thank you for making my point clearer.

You're somehow trying to convince me that I should be excited by the "more annoying way?"

Not a very great sales pitch. The addition of Google+ was what finally drove me away from G-Mail. You won't entice me back by telling me it's more annoying. Yeah. I know.
 
Menopause said:
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?
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1. They monitor everything via applications they developed to figure out how to better to market you and sell your information. It is by far, NOT impossible especially since most people just store their mails on their servers so the scanning doesn't have to be done in real time.

2. No one said I used gmail; I don't.
 
ELMI0001 said:
I know we're all Apple Fanboys/gals but if you don't think the information you feed Apple isn't being used to market you, then you are being naive.
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There's the rub though. I expect that Apple will use the information *that I feed them*. I would not want to feed my e-mail to Google.

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CylonGlitch said:
Exactly, there's good reason I don't use Google, or Yahoo, or any other major email provider.
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Same here. I have been my own e-mail provider since 2000.
 
twosee said:
Probably, but again, it's not BLATANTLY thrown in my face. I was tied to google plus without choosing to be, tied to circles... all that stuff.
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No.. you weren't.
You have a choice to use G+ or not. It's not automatic.
Somewhere along the line you agreed and accepted the association.
 
Guess it's time to switch to Postbox.

Sad to see Sparrow gobbled down by Google. They are a really nifty bunch of independent developers.
 
Small White Car said:
Thank you for making my point clearer.

You're somehow trying to convince me that I should be excited by the "more annoying way?"

Not a very great sales pitch. The addition of Google+ was what finally drove me away from G-Mail. You won't entice me back by telling me it's more annoying. Yeah. I know.
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No I'm not. You're assuming I'm this huge Google fanboy and them using our data as they please is okay.

The premise of your original statement is that major companies taking our data is a terrible thing. Apple does it as often as Google. Google forced everyone onto Google+, Apple tried to get everyone to use Ping.

I'm looking at both sides of it; not through Google Glasses or iGlasses.

I'm not selling you anything.
 
celui said:
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 we’ll be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps.

It’s 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
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This says it all. They're not going to work with this app no more.

Back to Mail.app.
 
Amazing Iceman said:
Thinking whether is good or bad, this could mean that Google is going to replace their current GMAIL iOS App with Sparrow.

I would say is going to be great!
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But only for people using Gmail ... I think that's the hangup for a lot of people. Even though Sparrow lacks push notifications and support for Exchange, so it's not like it was ever there in the first place.
 
bobobenobi said:
Apple is not collecting any of my e-mail data. This is extremely easy to verify.
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So is email data all you are concerned about? So is this really about privacy or something else?

Do you use the internet? use a land lines? You are being tracked...
 
Lol at all the flipfloppers now swearing off sparrow when chances are they used gmail in the first place. Are you people for real?

What search engine do you use? Bing or yahoo?
 
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