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Maybe this will turn out to be a very good thing, but with the degraded quality of their mobile app and the languishing state of the web app, I can't help but f

Maybe this will turn out to be a very good thing, but with the degraded quality of their mobile app and the languishing state of the web app, I can't help but feel like a desktop app for Proton Mail is a distraction at this point. Granted, there is a rewrite of their mobile app in progress to fix serious performance issues, but that should be finished first before even thinking about a brand new desktop app. At the same time, the idea that we need vendor-specific email applications really sucks. In decades past, we had email applications that could support multiple email accounts from multiple vendors. Proton Mail is a bit of a special case in that regard, which results in it needing to provide a bridge application and now apparently a desktop app, but it really shouldn't be. If independent email applications aren't adequate for peoples' basic needs in 2023 and can't provide straight forward support for things like Proton Mail, then those applications should be fixed. But that's just crazy talk, I know. Nothing can be interoperable.

n5332 3y ago
The teams behind the desktop application and the Android rewrite are probably not the same. I would guess that developing the desktop app didn't impact the development of the mobile app
protonmail 3y ago
Thank you for your feedback. Note that different teams are working on the Android and desktop apps, so we can develop them simultaneously. We have, in fact, in the last quarter only, shipped 38 different improvements to the Proton Mail and Calendar mobile and web apps: https://proton.me/blog/mail-calendar-improvements-2023 https://proton.me/blog/mail-calendar-improvements-2023. We are working hard on the re-written Proton Mail Android app (we have just started the rollout of the latest version on the Google Play store). We recommend that you check it out and provide feedback - all feedback we receive helps us improve our services. The same applies to the Proton Mail web app - feel free to report any issues to us at: https://proton.me/support/contact https://proton.me/support/contact.

n5332 3y ago

The teams behind the desktop application and the Android rewrite are probably not the same. I would guess that developing the desktop app didn't impact the development of the mobile app

protonmail 3y ago

Thank you for your feedback. Note that different teams are working on the Android and desktop apps, so we can develop them simultaneously. We have, in fact, in the last quarter only, shipped 38 different improvements to the Proton Mail and Calendar mobile and web apps: https://proton.me/blog/mail-calendar-improvements-2023 https://proton.me/blog/mail-calendar-improvements-2023. We are working hard on the re-written Proton Mail Android app (we have just started the rollout of the latest version on the Google Play store). We recommend that you check it out and provide feedback - all feedback we receive helps us improve our services. The same applies to the Proton Mail web app - feel free to report any issues to us at: https://proton.me/support/contact https://proton.me/support/contact.