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Fastmail has been around since 1999, I think it's going to be okay.
They sold to Opera, so clearly it wasn't sustainable by itself.
Actually, they were doing fine but they weren't able to grow.
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#182If only this meant they're now more likely to implement PGP in Gmail.
Web-based PGP is a bad idea from a security standpoint.
Why would you want GMail to handle your PGP encryption, when it's basically known that they hand over email content to the USG? You think your PGP keys would be safe there?
If people want to encrypt their web-mail using a web client they might as well just run the email message through a shift cipher because that's about the upper bound on security you can expect.
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Fastmail is pretty great.
I've just noticed the praise recently for this. Two dealbreakers for me: - No push on iPhone (as far as I can see) - No Calendar integration
I closed my google account today after spending a few weeks migrating. Try fruux for calendar and contact sync, it's hosted in Germany and I'm happy with it
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#184It is wrong in so many levels. Couple of years back we were talking google may send you an email advertising cremation services based on your email history. It is becoming a reality. The worrying part is upright, honest googlers are supporting it whole heartedly.
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I'm letting them occupy a piece of my screen real estate and grab a share of my personal attention every day. I consider that a form of payment. Now they're coming up with this massive price hike, putting us in a position to choose between accepting a higher price and spending a lot of time moving our data elsewhere. Many people don't even know how to move existing email to a different provider. So this is definitely…
Your screen is only payment if they can put something they want there.
They always could put what they wanted on parts of the screen. Now they want wastly bigger or more expensive parts of tjat screen.
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I don't think I buy this idea, and I don't think most honest developers would either. People want to know when their users aren't happy with their service, and they especially want to know if they're feeling alienated.
I think this is always a confusion point. Prior to the internet "user" and "customer" were pretty much synonymous. Now they can be entirely different. Users get confused when they miss this critical distinction.
No, everything is not new on the internet. Historically, this has always been the Media business model (newspaper, radio, TV, magazines, etc). Editors have balanced users and customers for a 100+ years.
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They sold to Opera, so clearly it wasn't sustainable by itself.
Actually, they were doing fine but they weren't able to grow.
Not to be rude, but "doing fine but they weren't able to grow" sounds like PR bizspeak for "unable to sustain themselves". It isn't like Opera is a company that can really grow Fastmail when they haven't even done that with their browser. I don't see how you could particularly trust Fastmail to be around for an extended period when they were recently sold to company few would consider stable and healthy.
Then again, I don't really see the point of not using Fastmail as long as you can export your stuff.
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I still have to keep all of my inboxes at zero. Every inbox must still be checked in case there is something mis-directed. I go out of my way to unsubscribe from most promotions, so no, even in the promotions box this is not welcome for me.
I'm not sure that your OCD is their problem.
On the contrary, they take advantage of this kind of behavior to ensure that he sees their ads. It's a problem they created and exacerbate for their own profit.
This is the whole point of 'gamification.' Dropping a number back down to zero is a form of this.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, they were doing fine but they weren't able to grow.
Not to be rude, but "doing fine but they weren't able to grow" sounds like PR bizspeak for "unable to sustain themselves". It isn't like Opera is a company that can really grow Fastmail when they haven't even done that with their browser. I don't see how you could particularly trust Fastmail to be around for an extended period when they were recently sold to company few would consider stable and healthy. Then again,…
They explain the rationale for selling in a couple blog posts. They were a really small company, only 3 or 4 guys. They didn't have any "PR bizspeak" people. They were profitable for 10 years but didn't have the resources to expand into business accounts. It sounded like the meeting with Opera people was kind of a fluke.