![]() ![]() He’s certainly not doing it out of the goodness of his heart. Disgraced Andy Rubin, formerly of Google and then Essential Phone, recently bought CloudMagic and is resurrecting Newton Mail, with an eye to doing the same data harvesting as Google, Edison and Readdle. I’d rather use mail that doesn’t let anyone get that insight if I can help it. There’s money to be made in seeing what people buy, and when, and at what prices, and what newsletters they subscribe to, and where they’re located, and what their political affiliations are. For hundreds of millions of Gmail users it’s acceptable (assuming they even realize it), but I don’t like it, and I don’t particularly have confidence in the Edison’s or Readdle’s ability to have sufficient security to protect my mail coursing through their servers. It’s a valid question and, in the next update of Spark, we will change this behaviour.” Does it currently still storing the tokens even if you don’t use Push notifications - I don’t know.īut as far as I know they do continue to scrape data to pay for the app development and server-side infrastructure of the “free” app.Īllowing mail providers to scan and harvest info from my email is just not acceptable to me. In a 2015 blog post entitled “How we handle your account information in Spark” they wrote, “Some people raised a question about why do we store access tokens even if you have decided not to use Push Notifications. (“We then use the authorization provided to download your emails to our virtual servers and push to your device.”) store your emails on their servers to push them to your devices.store credentials for your email accounts on their servers.We might use that email address to reach out to you periodically”) (“The first email you add to Spark is used as your username. automatically create an account with the first address entered, and subscribes you to their newsletter.(“We use third party services, such as Google Analytics, Facebook Analytics and Amplitude, to collect and analyze how you use Spark.”) send statistical data to several services known for bad privacy policies (Google, Facebook) to which there’s no way to opt out.According to Spark’s privacy policy they stated several things that gave me me pause when I looked at them a couple of years back. It works the way an email app should for the most part and it is a good app to have on my iPhone and iPad to manage a single email account that I do not check that often.Įdison Mail is available on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Mac.Yes, and it’s been discussed here before. The Spark email app does have the feature where it can delete those hundreds of emails all at once, so Edison may want to take some notes from Spark’s playbook. Granted, you can select up to 50 emails to delete, but when you have 300-500 emails in there, that’s going to take a while to get through. However, it’s 2021 now and there is still no Apple Watch Edison Mail app.Īnother issue with the app is if you have a huge load of emails in your inbox and you want to just have it show your emails as “read” instead of having that big, red, 150+ email notification icon on the app on my devices. I would expect this if we were still between 2015-2017. The first one is there is no Apple Watch app. Where the app goes wrong is in two different ways. It’s similar to the Spark email app, which is great, as that is one that I use for my primary email account on my iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sending emails in this app is a simple breeze. I do not use my iCloud email all that often, but when I do use it, I like that everything is there, it’s simple to understand, has Dark Mode, and most importantly, does not sign me out of my account. This is where Edison Mail has come in handy. Although I am grateful for the security and Apple’s clever ways of making it easier to sign-in to your iCloud email from an Apple device, the whole issue could be avoided if my email app didn’t sign me out. Of course, since I am managing my iCloud email on this app, that makes this job even more difficult because of the two-factor authentication and security tactics that Apple has. My reasoning for this has been because when I use the Outlook app and don’t use for it a week or two, it just kicks me out of my account, where I have to go and re-sign-in to my account. Over the last few weeks, I have been trying out Edison Mail as a replacement for the Outlook app on my iPhone and iPad. ![]()
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