Bait and Switch tactics for a third rate product.

I was tired of Apple Mail, a tired appication not being updated close to often enough.I bought this app months ago, I PAID for an email client, on faith, without even the benefit of a trial period, because I believe in supporting the little guy. What I got was an OK, not great email client, that has some nice stying but some less than great functionality. Especially the part that to use folders, I had to set them up at the ISP level, not in the app itelf. It also crashed, a lot. It occassionally lost emails, or didn’t send them, and a real concern, if you didn’t have the email downloaded, couldn’t access it if you were not connected to the internet.

But then they out of the blue decided to launch a new business model, where PAYING them merely got you in a positoin where you could SUBSCRIBE to use the app, and worse, it was an annual fee. LIke $60 CDN a year. For an email client. After I have already bougth it. Excuse me? A week later, we get a lame letter from the CEO explaining that they need to charge you an arm and a leg to support their business model. It’s not even a great app! I could go on and on about why you abslutely shouldn’t use this app - there’s NOTHING to recommend it and Apple will eventually wise up and improve their way out of date free model, burying this joke in a single update. But this company will be out of business in a year or less anyway, because they think an email app is the way to build a unicorn company. They are dreaming. In all the years I have used Apple I have never seen anything as preposterous as this company’s claim to your money or a more sleazy bat and switch. Good riddance.

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