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No, they were pretty up front that Sparrow was a talent acquisition. They said that the product would continue to exist but they weren't going to update it and
by smalter 14y ago
No, they were pretty up front that Sparrow was a talent acquisition. They said that the product would continue to exist but they weren't going to update it and they were going to work on new projects at Google.
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- lttlrck 14y agoTalent acquired and squandered. Google has no decent mail app on iOS.
- myko 14y agoPretty subjective. I find Gmail the most pleasant mail app to use on my iPad.
- encoderer 14y agoAgreed. I dumped the native mail client.
- larrywright 14y agoI like it, but its treatment of multiple mail accounts is crappy compared to sparrow (no unified inbox).
- resu_nimda 14y agoThe Gmail app is slick, but extremely slow for me (on iPhone 5), as in "it's really annoying every time I use this app but I've moved away from native Mail and inertia is a hell of a thing." Other people I've talked to have had similar experiences. I'm excited to try Mailbox.
- meerita 14y agoNo unified inbox, etc.
- hnriot 14y agoyou can't be serious, it's the beginnings of something good, but it has all kinds of problems, it fails to load email often (reporting "something has gone wrong.."), it routinely doesn't clear the red read indicator, it's laggy and sluggish. I am sure Google will make it kickass in the fullness of time, but for now, that's not what gmail/iOS is.
- bmle 14y agoUnread indicator is always wrong, especially when you use multiple devices. Seems very I characteristic of google. It's been that way since they released the app.
- kmfrk 14y agoSparrow mentions should come with a trigger warning. Money straight out the window. Ungh.
- notatoad 14y agoI'm still using Sparrow on my mac. It works great.
- yesimahuman 14y agoWhat was it, like $10? It still works to this day. Not a bad deal in my book even if they never update it again. It generally "just works."
- lotso 14y agoThe latest Gmail app is pretty nice.