Popular Subscription Email Service Newton Mail Is Being Discontinued (thurrott.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: CloudMagic, the makers of Newton, today announced that Newton Mail is being discontinued. The company is no longer allowing new users to purchase Newton Mail which costs $100 a year, and existing users will be provided with refunds. For those using the monthly subscription plan, it will immediately stop automatically renewing. And for those on the yearly subscription, you will be given a refund on a pro-rata basis. "We explored various business models but couldn't successfully figure out profitability & growth over the long term. It was hard; the market for premium consumer mail apps is not big enough, and it faces stiff competition from high-quality free apps from Google, Microsoft, and Apple," said Rohit Nadhani, the founder and CEO of CloudMagic. All of that makes sense -- when we have companies like Microsoft and Google making brilliant free email clients like Outlook Mobile and Inbox, there really is no space for paid apps like Newton on the market.

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Shocking

[mattyj]

I'm shocked. Shocked! That a $100 a year email client didn't fly in 2018! How can this be? I'll be rethinking my investment in Friendster now, for sure!

Baloney

[93 Escort Wagon]

”[W]hen we have companies like Microsoft and Google making brilliant free email clients like Outlook Mobile and Inbox, there really is no space for paid apps like Newton on the market.”

There are lots of paid apps which do quite well. What there Isn’t space for is a freaking standard email client which costs $100 a year.

Also... if this app really were “popular”, as the headline says - why would it be shutting down? There can’t be that much overhead involved.

Re:You can

[gweihir]

Same here. And secondary for about the same with a different provider. Also my own DNS for that. But sadly, most people, even most people here today, are not capable of running an email server.

service?

[fattmatt]

The title say "Popular Subscription Email Service" but I think it's really a client app subscription, an app that connects to other email services. So yea... might be tough to find a $100 market there. If it were a true service + client maybe they could offer something like privacy ... pretty sure you don't get that with the free email services.

then can someone at least do one-stop config?

[acroyear]

I have about 8 email accounts I regularly use, and 7 devices I use (between desktops, phones, tablets - work and personal). I want them to stay separate. I DON'T want Google to get involved in any of them and screw them up or start offering me advertisements on the stuff I'm already spammed with.

With Newton, I could configure that ONCE and then each device I add automatically gets all of those configurations at once.

That convenience (plus the way that Newton could get past my office's firewall that normally blocks the SMTP and IMAP ports) was worth it for me.

Can somebody else PLEASE write an app that can magically do that for Samsung email for phone/tablets and Thunderbird for Mac and Windows so I don't have to go through that living hell of entering in all of those ports and tls settings and all of that crap?