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So some brand new news Newton is coming back
Now if you don't know newton was an email application that has been on and off released for quite a while
I'll explain some of the details today about the re-release also some of the changes that they are making to this email application
And hopefully give you some of my opinions about whether you should jump back into
This application because obviously it has been up and down for many years
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So there are naturally a few up days updates in this platform
so let me take you for a little bit of a timeline first, so I actually worked with newton between
2017 and actually 2016 2018
And it was in about september 2018 that they announced they were closing. Um, and naturally
Um, that was what I thought would be the end, but in february of 2019
Uh the likes of essential which is a smartphone software company, uh actually decided to purchase it
Um and naturally transfer all its assets over to that company
Now essential actually closed about a month or two ago now in february time about the year anniversary of purchasing it
They closed both central and newton. And of course, that's the second time. It's shut down
So I thought you know, it's going to be over
um naturally but now a small team have actually bought the rights to the assets from a central and they
They basically want to start it up again. And I think it's quite interesting updates of what they're actually releasing
Um, so let's dive into them
So it's interesting in their blog post in the article that you guys will see in the link in description
You'll notice that they actually tried purchasing newton before when it first shut down
They had a huge interest in keeping the application alive the newton community were naturally
Massively uh engaged with this application and wanted to see it. Keep going
um
And of course it was that sort of time when a lot of people were eager so they had a natural interest in it
And what I quite like about these, um chaps so far is that they seem very interested and community focused
So let's share a few of the changes that they are looking to make
So the first change is long-term planning approaches
so apparently, uh
They are looking obviously to get things rolling again with newton but to actually look at the long term by making this application open source
in future use in case the company does go down because
They want this project to not go to waste
So that's a really nice long-term approach and they're also looking at self-hosted servers
And sort of that set up if people wanted that in the future without necessarily keeping the company running
So that's a really positive start. Um sort of a very long term approach to this one something not sure newton actually released originally
So they will be keeping with the same pricing
49.99 per year and I think that is the perfect pricing. I remember back when I started the company and
We they just released newton and I was in charge of like the community
And marketing aspects. Well, not all of the marketing naturally, but we were obviously selling this product at
49.99 people had gmail free, you know now um, some of these services like superhuman charging 360 a year. Um,
And actually state a bunch of them like polymail 120 a year, um dollars and that's quite expensive
Um, and actually newton sort of rolls perfectly into those pricing like 50 bucks per year is not bad
So that's something that they are, um keeping uh talk a little bit about the discounts and offers. They're providing a little bit later
So they also stated that they're looking to improve the customer support side of it
So apparently the newton had bad customer support. I didn't think I think we had
experiences where people had really good, uh from just
feeding uh into some of the
Conversations on social media when they were really good and really bad
so, um
It sort of wasn't consistent at least so they're looking to provide their emails
Inside of this conversation so you can directly reach out to them if you have any sort of problems
Now looking at the features. Um
They've actually stated within the first three to six months they plan on delivering new features
most requested by users
apparently this is namely
Dark mode fixing some of the superchargers and bugs
And they look at squashing a lot of bugs in the first six months and they don't want to you know over promise stuff
But they want to fix the core foundations
um before they jump into
Brand new features that are completely um, you know unfounded by the community
They've also made a statement about the privacy policy. Um, they also want to say that immediate quick changes to protect users data better
um, there was a lot of sort of hoo-ha about the gdpr stuff and also how newton
Utilized the data that was provided
And a lot of the wording I think was very general stuff that a lot of email applications include just to be able to access
Your emails, um in being able to provide them on their service
But they're looking to improve better privacy, which is a definitely a good statement
they're definitely touching on a lot of the points that newton users were suffering from
They also stated that
You can easily they want. I think they can easily delete your account and take ownership for your data faster than before
And they're also looking to integrate pgp based integrations or encryption. Sorry
um, so they said stay tuned for that now, you're probably wondering
49.99 a year like what happens if I had a newton account or what happens if I was a previous?
User in the past and I you know left because clearly it shut down
Well, they stated that if you've already subscribed to newton app now, you will be added three more months to your subscription for free
So that's anyone with an active yearly account, obviously
A lot of people would have done it in january and paid for it
So naturally you'll get three extra months, which is really good
and also if you had cancelled your subscription, um, of course because of the shutdown and you want to come back they're offering a 20
Discount um, and you just have to reach out to their general email
um
also
If you apparently want to refer a friend and they subscribe to newton you'll get a 20
discount and also three more months of newton so
They've already baked in a strong referral scheme, which is definitely good
so talking about all of those updates noon is actually a great positioned email application at the moment a
superhuman rise mixed match tools are all
Really expensive and very popular at the moment. So newton being priced at
49.99 is actually a decent price and when we actually first released it
It was like a bit of a conversation like that's an expensive email application
But now it actually falls into the sort of medium priced email applications, which makes it a lot more attractive. Of course
You know 30 bucks a month for superhuman that's almost an entire newton's description so you can see the appeal
That this application has got naturally superhuman a lot of benefits to it. Um, but definitely positioned well in the market
So if you want my opinion, I think I quite like this new
Team because they're a team you can see the people in it. They're not like a large company
Um, and they also look like they're fixing the stuff that the community
have found issues with which
Is definitely something that you want from a team
um, and it feels like they're going a bit more sort of on the ground versus up in the air in which
You didn't really know what a central we're getting on with in terms of newton
So it's definitely a better experience so they will be re-releasing
Um, I will be using testing the waters again. It was an email application for me for two and a half years
So, you know, it's not I don't necessarily jump back into it
But I want to have a look at how I used it before so folks. Um a big. Thank you
hopefully you found this video useful all of the links and relevant articles and
Documents and references will be below so you can go and check out their press releases
But a big thank you. I will talk to you all very very soon. Stay tuned for more videos
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