PowerMail Engineering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 6/20/08 8:56 AM said:
Sean McBride wrote:
Well, I sorta agree. It's hard to compete with Apple since they make
the OS too. But email is an essential feature and Mac OS should come
with a mail client. But CTM is to blame too, they haven't been
PowerMail;
Keeping an application up to date with Mac OS is not trivial
I would just like to say I love PowerMail. CTM has made excellent
choices when faced with decisions on where to allocate resources for
it's development.
I only hope the user base is large enough to justify CTM continuing to
but once I get my first iPhone next month, for the first
time I can see paying for .Mac, I mean MobileMe.
I'm starting to ask myself how PowerMail is going to fit in this
MobileMe and iPhone future?
Exactly the point of the post to begin with, and as we progress into the
use of the Cloud
Steve Tarpin said for some unknown reason:
Picky-Pickerton, so I'm not big on detail, don't let that distract you
from the point.
Well, you can't count obviously. That's my fault now?
You had a point? OK.
the features of MobileMe and the mail-push, server-side constant
updating of multiple
MB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2008-6-20 6:54 PM said:
Well, Apple currently provides developers with a .Mac SDK, so they may
expand it to cover these new features. Or not. We'll see. And if CTM
knows, they're under NDA.
But 3rd Party developers will always be behind Apple in this regard,
since of
Sean McBride wrote:
Well, I sorta agree. It's hard to compete with Apple since they make
the OS too. But email is an essential feature and Mac OS should come
with a mail client. But CTM is to blame too, they haven't been keeping
PM up to date. It still doesn't even have sheets, a feature
I've avoided Apple's Mail application, having been an avid PowerMail
user for 10-years now (since May of 1999)
That's 9-years though.
Picky-Pickerton, so I'm not big on detail, don't let that distract you
from the point.
The Cloud are awfully tempting. The Cloud is the
direction of the future
So, yes, PM is not fully up to date with Mac OS. But doing so would
require to spend 95% of our time rewriting things just to be up to
date. We chose to be up to date for important things (Mac OS 9 - Mac
OS X, PPC - intel...), but not for things that require a lot of work
for a minor feature
Steve Tarpin wrote at 6:04 PM (-0400) on 6/20/08:
I'm really curious about the
future of push services and what your (and other's) take might be.
Pardon me if I'm coming late to the party here, but from what I've
gathered, push in this context simply means IMAP; is that correct?
And the salient
Steve Tarpin said:
I've avoided Apple's Mail application, having been an avid PowerMail
user for 10-years now (since May of 1999)
That's 9-years though.
The Cloud are awfully tempting. The Cloud is the
direction of the future (GoogleApps, MobileMe etc), and eventually I
will give in and make the
Sean McBride said:
Well, Apple currently provides developers with a .Mac SDK, so they may
expand it to cover these new features. Or not. We'll see. And if CTM
knows, they're under NDA.
But 3rd Party developers will always be behind Apple in this regard,
since of course teams within Apple get
Steve Tarpin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2008-6-16 1:19 PM said:
I've avoided Apple's Mail application, having been an avid PowerMail
user for 10-years now (since May of 1999). In all honesty, the features
of MobileMe and the mail-push, server-side constant updating of multiple
computers from The
I've avoided Apple's Mail application, having been an avid PowerMail
user for 10-years now (since May of 1999). In all honesty, the features
of MobileMe and the mail-push, server-side constant updating of multiple
computers from The Cloud are awfully tempting. The Cloud is the
direction of the
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