I dunno about that - I really wanted to like Sparrow for iOS (aside from a couple bugs dealing with insane volumes of email, I love it on the desktop) but it never felt quite right to me.
I've actually just now reinstalled it to check what bothered me so much, and it's the same issue I have with the new Gmail app: swipe-to-archive simply isn't there. Frequency of me archiving messages: extremely high. Frequency of changing between different folders: nearly zero. Yet the left-to-right swipe which gives you the "delete" button in Mail brings that weird Facebook-esque hierarchical navbar that's become so prevalent in the last couple years.
Swiping the other direction exposes five options, two of which (I assume "archive" and "delete") have rather ambiguous icons. Mental energy - do not like (see also: new Gmail web UI).
When viewing an individual message, it's two taps to do all of the stuff that takes one in Mail. The designers traded always-visible icons for extra message real estate; clearly a matter of personal preference, but the wrong one for me.
Just goes to show how oddly personal the email experience can be, especially when you consider everyone's various workflows.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'swiping the other direction', but when I swipe from right to left on a message it displays an 'Archive' button over the message.
IIRC because they didn't want to store your username/passwords on the cloud on their servers. The password you gave them was only used on the device, and to have push notification they had to have a server pinging Google every few second and if there was a new mail, send a notification to the device. Needless to say, it's a costly business when you have a few million users.
They wanted Apple to allow then to run a daemon process that checks for new mail on the device, which Apple was reluctant to do (in general, I really like Apple's implementation of background services, but in this case I think they should've relented).
Firehed|13 years ago
I've actually just now reinstalled it to check what bothered me so much, and it's the same issue I have with the new Gmail app: swipe-to-archive simply isn't there. Frequency of me archiving messages: extremely high. Frequency of changing between different folders: nearly zero. Yet the left-to-right swipe which gives you the "delete" button in Mail brings that weird Facebook-esque hierarchical navbar that's become so prevalent in the last couple years.
Swiping the other direction exposes five options, two of which (I assume "archive" and "delete") have rather ambiguous icons. Mental energy - do not like (see also: new Gmail web UI).
When viewing an individual message, it's two taps to do all of the stuff that takes one in Mail. The designers traded always-visible icons for extra message real estate; clearly a matter of personal preference, but the wrong one for me.
Just goes to show how oddly personal the email experience can be, especially when you consider everyone's various workflows.
bruceboughton|13 years ago
>> Swiping the other direction exposes five options, two of which (I assume "archive" and "delete") have rather ambiguous icons
Hyperbole, much?
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pooriaazimi|13 years ago
They wanted Apple to allow then to run a daemon process that checks for new mail on the device, which Apple was reluctant to do (in general, I really like Apple's implementation of background services, but in this case I think they should've relented).