Hello everyone, welcome back to another video it is Francesco here
Welcome to keep productive youtube channel today. I wanted to grab a cup of tea and
Talk to you a little bit about Newton Mail and their recent news
So for those who don't know Newton Mail is an email application
It's available on iOS, Mac, Windows, and Android.
The sad news is that shutting down on September 25th of
this year and now I'm gonna what I want to do today is sort of explain a little bit about that
Because I was quite involved with the Newton Mail team very luckily lucky to be involved
And also talk to you about a few
alternatives that I'm looking at because obviously as
Someone who reviews applications. I want to give you some of my thoughts on what's next for me. So
The great news was that over the last two years. I was able to work with the Newton team on this amazing project
Which was email the email service Newton over that time period I learned so much about marketing
So much about you know, like ethos and and values in. It was a really good learning experience for me. So
In terms of like being able to get something out of it
It's been an incredible two years when I finished University
Obviously I was about freelancing for about six months to two year before
But new one of my first big clients and that was a real honor to have them sort of I guess
respect my time and understand that I was coming on board to help them and
They were amazing to have brought me in and and really supported me over the last two years. So it's been an amazing experience
so obviously
Newton have been going around for a fair while
Will cloud magic and was known as before so cloud magic launched in 2013
Newton only to years ago after a rebrand
And of course with the rebrand a lot of things changed
This was mainly the pricing. So for those who don't know the email service market is quite a hard one to break into
If you want to be a client
it's very tricky because if you want to add the features that sort of stand you away from the likes of Gmail or
Microsoft Office you have to
you know, there are high running cost to it because naturally
You're going above and beyond with the technologies. So obviously there of big Giants in the in space. We know Microsoft
Google and Apple have really strong email services, but it's hard to sustain an email service outside. Just due to the
costs of running
Obviously Newton put a sort of fee on them when they rebranded at
$49.99 a
leap for the company and I've got a lot of backlash and that's what we worked on for last year to try and get
that sort of stigma away from it and obviously
There are a lot more apps being subscription service because it's important to support developers and important to support services that you believe in
I I believe that I
For example, like subscribe to medium because I believe medium is a great service
I love reading off it and I pay my $5.00 a month because I enjoy so yeah
I worked with at the new team for last two years, which has been amazing and a big
huge thank you to the team actually for those two years and they taught me a lot and were very
Respectful my time and I was very respectful at their time and they did teach me some amazing things
From company ethos all the way to like how a team works. So I really appreciate that now you're probably wondering
What's next for you Francesco now, the great thing will I say the good news about this?
The only positive twist about this is that I can now talk to you a bit more about email applications
Now the reason I didn't previously chat about email applications was for the obvious reason
I didn't want to seem biased. So I've pretty much for the last two years at least
not reviewed email services, but now
Obviously with the news I can focus on email
So do expect a new an alternative feature at the end of August and in individual email app
Reviews later on this year because that's sort of my goal. Now. You're probably wondering francesco
What email applications are you looking at right now?
So obviously there are some obvious ones like office
You know outlook Gmail
But I really do like clients. I like one application that brings in all my emails. Obviously some of them do still
But I'm looking at two core applications those applications are poly mail
poly mail is a
Very popular email claim again. It's more independent than
Some of the other alternatives the secondary application I'm looking at is spark spark is created by a company called Riedl
Reid also
Run my amount add my calendar application. I use calendars five and so then sort of a
Got a bit of trust in them more than I do. So on poly mail now obviously I don't have any
sort of
Opinions greatly on the me
I want to try them for at least a month before I determine whether I want to go with one of them
So I am running them equally at the same time
Just so that I can get a full understanding of the applications
And then I'll be able to determine and of course
I will let you guys know which one a wonderful one I go for I've obviously got everything set up and everything rolling
So we'll see what happens
So guys hopefully that gave you a nice overview of Newton and you know what happened in the last couple of weeks
now, of course, you know
I did a video on this actually last week about trusting a software and of course all of the advice I gave
Was really advice that sort of stuck with people like being able to check out, you know
All of their information and stuff like that. I think that's a great sort of ethos, but you can't necessarily
You know make all the right decision as in for example, you know
I could put all my attention in ocean and next day Newton goes down or notion. No longer becomes a service
So you always have to is always an element of risk when you use an application a risk that the service might not continue
But that's something that we all know and we've all been
Sort of a part of so guys. I want to say a big big
Thank you for understanding that I wasn't reviewing emails for last few years. I want to say a big big
Thank you to the Newton team. I
Wanted to personally thank all the journalists all of the influences all of the amazing community members that used Newton
Under my recommendation again
I will be making sure that I sort of pulled together something
That gives you guys the best insight into what I think the best recommendation
But really a huge. Thank you to everyone
Anyway, I really do appreciate you stopping by for this video today
Hopefully it gave you enough insight into Newton
I'm going to include the blog post by the CEO Rohit who sort of explains the reasons
Why more in the business model type?
If you're subscribing you do want to understand but I will slowly be emailing all of the amazing people
I was in touch with it Newton
Over time, so hopefully you'll get a message from me soon
Anyway guys big Li thank you, and I will see you guys in a future future
Make sure to have a great week keep productive now. I'll see you guys very very soon Cheers