The last thing I wanted to be doing on this Saturday morning was testing out mail clients for my Mac. But having read the email from Sparrow yesterday it felt that I had no choice.
I live a busy life and managing my four email accounts is something I don’t need any hassle with. I have two IMAP accounts as well as a Gmail a Yahoo account. When I jumped from Windows to become a mac user I wanted something to replace Outlook.
At first I used Outlook 2011 only to be reminded that the relationship between Microsoft apps and OSX is not pretty. Then I found that Lion had it’s own mail app, Perfect! That was until it began to use half of my memory each time I ran it and slowed up my mac to the speed of a tortoise.
A friend of mine then mentioned Sparrow. Immediately I knew it was a winner. Clean, easy to use, hassle free and perfect for what I wanted. It even came to the Iphone a few months ago with the promise of an Ipad version too. Managing my mails was never easier.
When the email from Sparrow came I expected to be the exciting news that push notifications or the Ipad app was here. Alas it was worse. Google had purchased Sparrow.
Whilst it’s perfect for the companies involved, it means that’s it for Sparrow. No more updates enhancements or future releases. I’m angry as I purchased both the OSX and Iphone version only for Google to swallow up yet another perfectly third party app.
Of course, I could stick with Sparrow, but I don’t see the point. It’s not going to improve. So for now it’s back to the OSX mail client. I tried Postbox today, and if it had the ability to import flagged emails then I would use it, but it doesn’t so it looks like I am stuck.
Thanks Google for being, once more, inconsiderate to those who actually depend on third party apps.
