Spark for iOS and Mac Gain New Reminder and Send Later Features

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This can go around in circles all day but this thread is NOT a privacy debate. ANY third party app out there on your device that you log into is a privacy concern on some level (password, email address getting spammed, even location data as many apps were busted). If one cannot accept the rather low risk then perhaps one should be using a flip phone and stick to call/texting and throw away their home computer and never log into any website again as well because you know that could get a virus or be hacked

To the counterpoint you dont HAVE to use send later or snooze and have the full mail message go through their server; the app still functions as a perfectly good mail app with Gmail that is pushed to device which Apple will never have. One must know the risk reading the T&C of an app and accept the level of risk or not and delete the app

And since those features are done on server it is something Apple will not be adding anytime in the near future to the stock mail app due to their own personal beliefs on privacy; which is their prerogative. That is why choices like this app exist. Understanding the risk the risk is very low using this app taken their claims at face value (and no one has found contrary code in the app to date that I know of).

But again, this is not a privacy debate Spark or otherwise, there are other threads if you want to go debate that.

You can continue to blindly misstate that you are giving with app your password using OAuth (I see no claims against many other apps that let you login via Google with OAuth) but it doesn't make it any more true the more times you misstate the facts (and clearly still dont understand how OAuth works).

No need to reply as I will not be wasting more thread space here about the app update addressing the continuing misstatements/fallacies and off-topic privacy conspiracy theories. If you have evidence to back up mere wild accusations and presumptions that someone is doing wrong merely because they have the opportunity to do so, then start a thread and present said evidence. People smarter than you are I are involved in watchdog groups over apps as a full time career and I have seen no legit claims anywhere against Spark about privacy issues or misuse of data.

That's fine. Here's the simple facts that you haven't refuted:
1. When you use a third-party app, there is no current disclosure method in use generally outside privacy declarations that a user would have to seek out and find.
2. Spark caused problems with iCloud passwords in the past, locking out users. I was one of them.
3. Most users aren't aware that email using a(ny) third-party will house (no matter how securely or short-term) their data on third-party servers.

I was caught unaware that Spark wasn't just a "different way" to view my mailboxes. I thought it was like calendar apps that take data from internal services and represent them in novel ways. I was naive, so now I'm sharing it. On a forum. The problems were real, the statements were simplified, but only oversimplified to someone willing to go look up the legal contract, and *that is* the point. 99+% of users don't read privacy statements; we rely on regulation by both governments and particularly here, the "Walled Garden". Bravo to you for being in the minority to read privacy statements. I'm not that guy.

 

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I used spark until last year when I forget some major issue they had, I currently use Alto which is great. I like the package tracking feature on Edison mail better then Alto and Edison was great at the travel thing as well.
I have like 6-7 different email accounts and always looking for better options with most features

Just noticed that Alto will be shutting down their app and services in the next few weeks or so.

 

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Just noticed that Alto will be shutting down their app and services in the next few weeks or so.

You best me to posting on here lol I'm sad what are you going to use now?