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I don't have access to Sparrow so I'd like to know from people who do use it: how much better is your email experience because of it? I ask because I'm sceptic

I don't have access to Sparrow so I'd like to know from people who do use it: how much better is your email experience because of it? I ask because I'm sceptical of Sparrow's business model in the first place. I am most people. I come from a culture of ISP bundled email services (hidden cost) and Hotmail and Gmail and I basically refuse to pay my own take-home income to be able to send & receive emails. I'm actually more generous than most people because I might even pay $3 for an app that will make my email experience better but what happens when all the people who are into doing that (not a whole lot of people) have purchased the app? The market will have dried up. And what then? Monthly subscription? Unless it is bundled with other services I'm not interested. Upgrade to a "Pro" version of the product? No thanks. I think this is the beginning of the end of nice-to-have paid apps. Once a developer has exhausted his or her market they are forced to find another brilliant idea. How many brilliant and executable ideas do you have in you?

Steko 14y ago
Texts, Twitter, IMs, FB, Skype and company have eaten into so much of what email's traditionally been used for that a lot of people don't need more then the default client. My Gmail account it now used primarily as a glorified repository of site registrations.
malyk 14y ago
I use the sparrow Mac client and love it. I keep it on the top left of my 27" iMac screen about and it's roughly 350px wide by half the screen tall. Twitter sits underneath it at the same width/height. It only has 2 email accounts linked to it (work and personal) and they are both gmail. It's always on and always there. I prefer it to the gmail web app because I can keep it visible and it's a couple of keyboard shortcuts away to read and send email, can keep me logged in to both accounts simultaneously without having to "hack" gmail with an incognito window or two separate browsers, and...it's not a web app. Oh, and the interface is so much simpler than gmail and I confess to not using labels or tags or filters or anything "advanced" in gmail so it is perfect for me. I'm personally not so bothered that they aren't going to continue improving it because it does everything I need it to do, but for me it was definitely worth the $10 I paid for it and it fits my workflow/screen layout much much better than a web app would.

Steko 14y ago

Texts, Twitter, IMs, FB, Skype and company have eaten into so much of what email's traditionally been used for that a lot of people don't need more then the default client. My Gmail account it now used primarily as a glorified repository of site registrations.

malyk 14y ago

I use the sparrow Mac client and love it. I keep it on the top left of my 27" iMac screen about and it's roughly 350px wide by half the screen tall. Twitter sits underneath it at the same width/height. It only has 2 email accounts linked to it (work and personal) and they are both gmail. It's always on and always there. I prefer it to the gmail web app because I can keep it visible and it's a couple of keyboard shortcuts away to read and send email, can keep me logged in to both accounts simultaneously without having to "hack" gmail with an incognito window or two separate browsers, and...it's not a web app. Oh, and the interface is so much simpler than gmail and I confess to not using labels or tags or filters or anything "advanced" in gmail so it is perfect for me. I'm personally not so bothered that they aren't going to continue improving it because it does everything I need it to do, but for me it was definitely worth the $10 I paid for it and it fits my workflow/screen layout much much better than a web app would.