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It's easy to blame the app store and focus on Apple here, because Sparrow runs on Apple products, but it's not Apple's fault. Developers have given away softwar
by chimi 14y ago
It's easy to blame the app store and focus on Apple here, because Sparrow runs on Apple products, but it's not Apple's fault. Developers have given away software products for less than $0.99 since long before Apple conceived of an app store.
Open source software is free. Firefox is free. Thunderbird is free. That anyone would pay for an email client at all is exceptional.
It's not Apple who is at fault here -- it's us.
- acdha 14y agoWhy? People pay for quality and the OSS email apps tend to be unlovable. Sparrow proved there's a market willing to pay for better clients but Apple doesn't want their money and nobody else seems interested in trying for it.
- raverbashing 14y agoYeah, but the market is tiny A better email client can only go so far: - Gmail is already a great email client, I just plug other accounts into it - I really want a good email client. For Linux - Outlook/Thunderbird/Evolution may be bad, but they're usually good enough