The state of email
Email has struck a cord with many prominent Mac bloggers:
- No suitable email apps for Mac OS X
- The Rise of the OS
- It could work: a 3rd party email client for OS X
- The Rise Of The OS
- The state of Mac email
- Daring Fireball
- Regarding Mail Pro
- Free advice about a pro email client
- Dear Apple, we want MailKit
- Restarting Innovation
- Michael Tsai: Restarting Innovation
- More Follow-up To Mail, The OS And Frameworks
With all this talk of e-mail in the air I wanted to add a little bit:
I am still actively working on MailCore/Kiwi, and my drive is only stronger after the “features” for Leopard Mail were revealed. Progress has been slow due to time constraints: during the school year I’m a computer science student at UIUC and now I’m an intern on the iPhoto team. So, don’t expect anything an alpha immediately, but I am hacking on it.
Another interesting tidbit has been raised, bloggers, like Michael McCracken, believe there is a market for a power user e-mail client; I have to agree. In fact, I’ve been thinking for the past 6 months about the commercial potential in Kiwi. I initially announced that Kiwi would be open source, but am now toying with the idea of making a Kiwi closed source and the email framework, MailCore, as open source. I’m curious what your thoughts are on this.