Hey guys welcome back to another video
Today. I'd wanna do a video on Newton and give you a bit of an outline what's happened with this application so I'm just gonna
make a cup of tea and I won't start talking about it because this it's been more of like a
topic that needs a bit more context before we dive into the details
So guys to start the tail off I'm joy Newton or cloud magic back in September
2016 and I worked there for I think was roughly two years as a
freelancer finishing back in
August or September of last year
Now I really enjoyed my time as a freelancer working there and I worked on a range of different
projects including marketing PR and
Also some of the videos as well that you may have seen on the new tube channel and things like that
now the relationship was really nice and we sort of you know built up a good friendship
the team were based in Bangalore and
Obviously me based in the UK, so it was quite nice a really good relationship, so we obviously ended pretty
mutually and the agreement obviously stopped a month or two before they actually call it a day on Newton
So obviously so obviously they're developed the product and were selling annual subscriptions and we actually had at the time
40,000 I think it was a subscriber which is public knowledge and it seemed like we're doing well but naturally they weren't able to
monetize fully in making it profitable
so they called it a day and
Shut down to you all of you guys, so just after that I think it was in November the company
essential who's run by Andy Rubin
who is the Android founder
Houston previously wealthy google actually acquired
cloud magic and they naturally became part of that during kind of time from when they were shut down
too before they get inquired I remember getting a lot of messages from you guys on email and also in the community on Twitter asking
Ok, dudes not sure properly
and actually was curious about why that reason was so I reached out to team and I got nothing back from them
And some people left the company so naturally I wasn't speaking to the right people
but a couple of weeks ago on to the message from their team saying that they were obviously returning
With the application so the news isn't anything
dramatically different Newton is now back out on all platforms I believe they're available Windows and iOS and
also on Mac too they have a few changes as well in this update as well as a
$49 price tag for any annual subscription which when we're closing or finishing the service we were actually on
$99 per year so it is back to its original pricing want to check a few things that they
Shared in their statement on the App Store's they said we're thrilled to be back if you still have your
Newton account use the same username and password and the downtime we made some little and big UX
Improvements that we are long-pending on our roadmap and here's the highlight so that you can now delete a single mail in a thread
you can resize the Mac compose window which is I know remember being a big thing
you can also add emails to only focus things to do and
there and there's also better copy and paste abilities as well as a few things more like giffy links and things like that nothing
dramatically different but Newton is now back on the App Store's and I wanted to share a few of my personal thoughts about this
So being someone who worked with the team on the whole Newton project I put a lot of time and effort into
Working with them so I feel like I have a spot in my heart for these guys
Naturally Newton was a great application in allowing you to do effective email
since the actual Newton shut down I've moved from two between two different applications I
did a two and a half months then would sparked mail which is developed by wheedle and I also
used an application now using an application called missive which I'm finding a really effective tool for my work
Now as many of you know of course I will be checking out
again and I will be covering stories of them and
the main reason I didn't cover many email apps in the past is because I didn't necessarily want there to be
some invested interest from me and now I have no technical
association apart from sponsors with email services I can now freely range between these applications and give you my opinion
Now Newton in its previous format was a great application and I know and I can see many of you
Renewing some of your subscriptions as well which I think is absolutely fine if you know that their package meets your needs
But for me I necessarily won't be moving over I found a good home or missive at the moment
I've actually passed my sort of two months three months period of time which
I'd normally check an application and it's gonna take a bit more
from Newton to actually beat that experience for me at the moment
and naturally it's going to take a bit of time if I'm going to check out everything
So I just wanted to share
how I am approaching this I'm not necessarily gonna jump straight across to it you've got to remember as well that
this application although under a new name is
still the same application so there's not been anything
dramatically change maybe they've been able to fine-tune some of the technical processes and
the expenses going out but there's nothing saying this application might not shut down again not saying soon
because obviously this has been
relaunched but
What I'm trying to get to you is you've got to have that in the back of your mind that there's been this sort of
history between there there's not many
applications please do let me know in the comments that I know have shut down come back
and it sort of kept a long cycle so I'm really open to
The reaction to this and I know a lot of people will love this because it's a very
cross-platform experience and as you many of you know I'm was a big fan of Newton
So that's my thoughts
Obviously it's something that I would like to hear from you about what do you think will you be jumping back on Newton
Have you changed your mind about the application in the last couple of months it's only been three or four five months to shut down
So it'd be really great to hear so please do share those in the comments below and in the guidance
Thank you so much for stopping by today hopefully gave you all the insights that you need to know about Newton
and I wondered share my opinion because many people asking me and I feel like I wouldn't be as
honest I can be obviously the team didn't reach out to me
a couple of weeks ago that they were
redoing this but I felt it was polite enough to not share that there's public information
especially because they mentioned this is private and I tend to do other companies if they're planning on a launch or something like this
Because it's respectful on both sides so guys thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a great day
Please do comment below I will be there to Jack with you guys about Newton all right cheers guy