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For the gmail issue, I feel like I might as well plug http://mimestream.com, a gmail client that is a pleasure to use & efficient.

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Might have considered it, but saw the subscription-only pricing and left.

General unsolicited advice to desktop application vendors: unless you have the market size and monopoly of Adobe, Microsoft etc, go with one off pricing.

I tend to apply this thinking to my software purchases as well, but in the spirit of conversation I’ll offer that I also make exceptions for software I find to be 1) fantastically good _and independent_, or 2) only make sense with an Internet connection and/or requires or includes some kind of vendor-specific remote service.

And written using Mac APIs, not Electron

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