Newton Mail is Being Resurrected Again, This Time by Superfans

Newton Mail, a subscription-based email client with an impressively large fanbase, is being reincarnated by new owners: long-time fans Maitrik Kataria and Justin Mitchell. From a report: After Newton's owner Essential announced it would be shutting down in February -- for the second time, Kataria and Mitchell reached out to the company to figure out how they could save their favorite email client. And somehow they've done it. Newton, which was originally produced under the name CloudMagic, has been shut down and given new life more times than most companies are afforded. CloudMagic rebranded as Newton in 2016 and did pretty well for itself -- by the time it first shut down in the summer of 2018, the service had more than 40,000 paid subscribers. The purchase of Newton Mail by Kataria and Mitchell brings the mail client back to its roots as a company free of venture capital funding. Newton will need to bank on its long-standing fan base's willingness to pay subscription fees for a mail client if it wants to survive. Otherwise, history is doomed to repeat itself once again.

Thought this was Apple Newton related

[jfdavis668]

When I read this I thought Apple was resurrecting the email service for their long dead PDA line.

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[hawk]

It shouldn't be *too* hard to make an add-on to turn handwriting into irrelevant but hysterical nonsense . . .

Einstein Mail

[Roger W Moore]

Well if this is going to be a new and improved Newton Mail 2.0 shouldn't they really call it Einstein Mail?

Re:Einstein Mail

[theskipper]

Good point. But everyone knows it should have been called Leibniz Mail from the beginning.

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[gander666]

Fuck, and me without mod points. Brilliant.

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[Roger W Moore]

Leibnitz had nothing to do with the laws of motion, the study of light or the law of gravity. Leibniz made important contributions to maths but Newton did that AND founded an entirely new branch of science: physics. Leibniz was brilliant but he was a lightweight compared to Newton even if Newton was an utter bastard by all accounts.

third time charm

[renegade600]

Maybe it will last this time. Not sure if I will go back after being dumped twice. Unless the superfans have money backing them, it will not last this time either.

I will seriously consider it if they get their alexa skill working where it will read the emails. Also hope they have better customer service is better. It was nonexistent last year when I reported the broken skill. Never did get a response.
   

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[AmiMoJo]

I've never used Newton mail. Can you explain why it's so great?

I stopped using a mail client years ago. Gmail is a huge time saver compared to any local client I have ever tried because the search is superior. No need to organize the 15GB of mail I have, if I need something a simple search query will find it. I realized that with local clients I was spending a lot of time organizing for the relatively few times I needed to dig something out.

Not for "all your devices"

[stuff-n-things]

When it doesn't have deb or rpm packages, so they don't get any $ from me.

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[DraconPern]

curious.. what deb or rpm packages have you paid for?

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No web or Linux version

[Per Wigren]

I would consider this if there was a web version or a Linux client. I still miss Google Inbox.