Plus, Apple hasn’t tried to tackle the problem many others have tried to solve: intelligently separating different types of emails, like newsletters versus hand-crafted individual messages.
For instance, on my iPhone, an email has been stuck in Apple Mail’s Outbox now for over three weeks, unable to either be sent or deleted. And, in my experience, little glitches pop up way too often. Search is often sluggish and unreliable, especially with a large body of emails.
Its biggest problem is a technical incompatibility that makes it slow to receive messages from Google’s Gmail, which now has a billion users. It was easy to use, yet rich with features - like simple account setup, in-line photos, fast search, a good junk mail filter, the ability to handle all the major email services, and more.īut today, Apple Mail is, like the company’s other core apps, displaying what looks to me like a gradual deterioration in quality. Once, Apple’s built-in Mail app for iOS was a revelation. Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.
