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Popular Newton Email App for iOS and Mac Shutting Down in September
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Yeah, but they only do Gmail and Office 365 at the mo, need to pull their fingers out... lol
I am not sure that I would have paid $100/yr, but I did pay $50 for this year. I really liked the app and the clean interface. I have used other apps like Airmail (not free either, but not subscription) and Spark (serious privacy concerns) and I liked this one best. The search goes on.
The App Store description says they have "over 40,000 subscribers" even an average subscription price of $50 is $2million per year. And they can't make that work?
Hubspot has a free CRM that does that, which you can sync with Gmail. Also has good task management and basic template automation as well.
As for the price of Newton, it does seem high to me. Wonder how they’d have done if it was more like $50/one-time or $5/mo.
Evernote is still struggling to turn a profit, if I recall correctly. While Things - a task manager - charges a one-time fee per major release for each platform that ends up costing $80 if you go all in (MAC, iPhone, iPad), and they appear to be going strong.
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$2M is a really small company, especially if it’s located in Silicon Valley.
I decided to give Canary a go. It has end to end encryption and your credentials don’t leave your device using fetch. They also have read receipt and a lot of other features. Give their privacy notice and their website a read. Looks good to me. No subscription for Mac or iOS.
Odd. Most of us figured that out on day one.
Wow. This is terrible. I had bought premium features with a one time fee. It's since gone to a subscription model, but I don't have to pay for subscription since I had already bought premium features. At least I don't have to pay for the next 99 years or so. I'd say that's a reasonable way of shifting pricing models if a developer wants to.
Man ... be more understanding!
Poor owner was shamed by his peers...
He was the only one who owned only one Tesla S series and his Yacht was way too small.
And his helicopter.... it was not painted in glitter so he was ashamed to fly to office.
Me... I am sitting in my futon eating macaroni and cheese for I have spent my income on an email client....
Just kidding - please don't take the comment seriously.
It takes more than 2 M to sustain a business with employees. I presume in US this is not much for a business in Silicon Valley.
My Chain of "8mm Reel to Reel" Shops will make you all rue the Day you opened your Doors! MuHaHaHa!
To be honest, that was a crappy app, not even native (slow). The biggest problem it didn’t solve any problem, so subscription in this case was a nonsense.
I have try the app.
Took few min to delete it.
Not sorry for them.
PS: stop making email apps! Fu..., same as todo, notes, calendars!! No one need this ****, at least they radically change the way we work, and actually solve a real problems.
PS2: Features don’t solve problems.
I have try the app.
Took few min to delete it.
Not sorry for them.
PS: stop making email apps! Fu..., same as todo, notes, calendars!! No one need this ****, at least they radically change the way we work, and actually solve a real problems.
PS2: Features don’t solve problems.
Email is dead. Nobody uses it anymore.
It was a stupid idea trying to build a product around a dead technology.
It was a stupid idea trying to build a product around a dead technology.
You serious?! lol Email is used constantly throughout the day for me.
I think this is the beginning of people pushing back on subscription based products. There will always be subscriptions, ms office, adobe, but the others where there are many other free alternatives, it makes little sense.
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You lack knowledge in this, enterprises survive on email, my company for instance uses it, and every organization I work with uses it. If you say no one is using it, please provide proof for such off the wall and ludicrous statement.
A slow transition to using other technology in addition to email, is not the same thing as saying nobody uses email.
No they're not! Maybe developers and creative industries, but finance and everything else will be using email for many, many, many, many years to come.
That's not what you're saying you said no one is using email, and even so, not everyone is using slack
I can only presume that this World that you live on is different from the one the rest of us inhabit.
Aha! Of course, you must be:-
a) An Alien
or
b) a Time Traveller from the Future
Now your comments make sense!
I don't literally mean not a single person uses email anymore. Normal people uses social networks and messages, businesses use things like slack and teams. But when I say nobody uses email anymore, I mean it's no longer mainstream and will continue declining.
Businesses DO use email! Probably 90% of businesses do... Finance, Law, Government, Social Services (Doctors etc.)... I bet 90% of the top 100 companies still use email, Apple included.