Paying $50 per year for what many offer for free and some for a one-time purchase. I hate subscriptions.
For me, and I email quite a bit, Apple Mail + SpamSieve works just fine.The problem with Apple mail, much like all things Apple these days, is that Apple's design-to use case is a teenager that mostly tweets, instagrams, whispers, snapchats, etc. and has very little use for a full featured mail app. Especially these days where teenagers want their social exchanges deleted immediately. Apple mail is good for a half dozen emails per day, but not much more.
Odd perspective, I use the Apple mail app exclusively on both my MacBook Pro and iPhone and manage to read, reply to, delete, and/or file 30-75 emails a day. And I'm about as far from a teenager as you can get and not be required to draw SS.The problem with Apple mail, much like all things Apple these days, is that Apple's design-to use case is a teenager that mostly tweets, instagrams, whispers, snapchats, etc. and has very little use for a full featured mail app. Especially these days where teenagers want their social exchanges deleted immediately. Apple mail is good for a half dozen emails per day, but not much more.
So, what exactly does this email app offer over standard Mail or Gmail? Anything good?
For me, and I email quite a bit, Apple Mail + SpamSieve works just fine.
What do you expect an ex-googler would do? Get those analytics going.50 bucks and they share information with social platforms if you don’t opt out. Where do I sign up?
The problem with Apple mail, much like all things Apple these days, is that Apple's design-to use case is a teenager that mostly tweets, instagrams, whispers, snapchats, etc. and has very little use for a full featured mail app. Especially these days where teenagers want their social exchanges deleted immediately. Apple mail is good for a half dozen emails per day, but not much more.
Of course, with any third-party email app, it's always worth investigating privacy policies to see what companies are doing with your data. Newton says it may share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties and works with third-party social platforms like Facebook to serve targeted ads unless you opt out, which is something to be aware of.
I am waiting on Pigeonmail to release their new product this month. No data mining, no Google or Facebook analytics etc. no serving ads or selling your info to third parties. They don't track anything you do.
Fastmail is worth it - $50/year for a lot of features and a whole lot more.
Newton, not so much.
Fastmail is a full-fledged email service, not just a client.![]()
I use FastMail for my domain email and they are great. Their app is pants though, so have to look elsewhere...
I did the same. Came from Office 365 in fact, since I realised I could use multiple domains from 1 single account, with complete inward and outward capabilities. Fastmail is great. The app is, yes, pretty spartan and just a reflection of the web interface. They are focussing heavily on the mobile aspect only now, I guess.
Newton says it may share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties and works with third-party social platforms like Facebook to serve targeted ads unless you opt out
I'm terribly sad about this. Newton was a fantastic Mail app, absolutely worth the $39/year I had originally paid. When I heard it was back at $50, I was thrilled even at the higher cost.. Until I read their updated Privacy Policy.
Having gone from:
"All the information we collect from you is only used to give you the best possible experience using Newton. We don’t run ads inside the product or sell data to make money. We’ve built a good product and charge our users a subscription to run the business."
[Old Privacy Policy]
to
"We may work with third-party social platforms, such as Facebook, to serve ads to you as part of a customized campaign, unless you notify us that you prefer not to have information about you used in this way by sending an email to notices@newtonhq.com indicating the email address you wish to have removed from customized ad campaigns.
[Current Privacy Policy]
..is absurd for a product that charges any fees.
Hm. Can you refer me?If I hadn't found a replacement in Superhuman I'd be switching back right now. But after two months of searching I came across Superhuman back in September and was all in. Even in beta stage its user interface is just as good as Newton, but adds a lot more features and shortcuts.
And yes, some of us happily pay for email service. For one, it's a business write off so it saves me money when I get to the end of the year. And two, because I can fly through my emails, search faster, find attachments quicker, etc. I'm able to save time which means increased revenue. With that said, if I wasn't using email for business I probably wouldn't be paying for an app and I can understand why people are mind blown if that's not their use case.