I was an early Spark supporter but I have grown frustrated with Readdle slow updates and the general feeling that they bit off more than they can chew here. I gave up on it several weeks ago. Maybe I'll give it another try when they hit version 2 in about 5 years.

I like touch screens but I have oily skin and I can’t abide by the ridiculous number of fingerprint smudges on my Windows laptop when I use the touch screen. I buy a smudge-proof screen protector for my iOS devices mainly to avoid cleaning them 382 times per day.

Me, too, actually, though I’d much rather that the bundling have a custom time option, as it would be far more handy to have my bundles delivered at 7 p.m. than 7 a.m. But I took my 2 most low priority bundles and have set them for the 7 a.m. delivery and I’ll try that for a few days.

One further thought: My main issue with the whole bundling concept is that the times are too inflexible. I don’t want my bundles to show up at 7 a.m. I’d much rather they show up at 7 p.m. - that way I get my day’s emails about things when I’m home at night and have time to look at them rather than at 7 a.m. when I’m…

When Inbox first came out, I really didn’t like it. Google sold it as being part Gmail and part Google Now, and it wasn’t nearly enough Google Now for me and there were some REALLY clunky parts on the email side (like the fact it took way too many taps on the iPhone to delete an email).

On the contrary, I think Gmail proper is more likely to be discontinued going forward than Inbox. I see Inbox as Google’s vision of what they want email to be for everyone and they are going to push it harder in the future and start forcing migration over from “old” Gmail.

Immediately turned these off. Apparently Twitter either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about the backlash against Facebook for the same thing. Most people loathe auto-play videos.

As a Spark beta tester, I agree that it has a lot of potential, but I’m starting to think Readdle bit off more than they could chew with building an email client. So far, updates have been very slow in coming, and the 1.0 build has some giant bugs that are waiting to be fixed. It’s one thing to push out a more or less…

Yeah, it’s pretty great. The deal breaker for me right now is that it doesn’t support Gmail Alias/Send-As, which I use all the time. Outlook, Inbox, Mailbox and pretty much every other third-party email app supports this. Spark says it’s coming soon, and I hope so, because that’s about the only thing keeping me from…

It took hours for the new features to show up in my Inbox app, even after updating. I assume Google was rolling them out across the network.

From the Google blog today, “We hope these small improvements help you tackle your email faster and get back to what matters. In the meantime, we’re also working to add easier access to delete as well as signature support in Inbox, two features you’ve told us you want. So stay tuned!”

Google also noted today that they’re improving the delete function, which is good, because right now it takes way too many taps on an email to get to the delete option. When pretty much every other email program out there has a “swipe left/right to delete” function, it’s baffling that this didn’t come with Inbox out…

I've tried so many calendar apps on the iPhone I've lost track and in the end I always go back to the built-in Apple calendar, because in the end, all I really want is something that keeps tabs on my events, and the Apple calendar does that just fine. Every other calendar I've tried ends up with some shortcoming of…

Agreed. I wanted to like Inbox too, but the lack of simple things like a "delete" swipe from the main screen (and the fact that because you can't swipe to delete it then takes a ridiculous number of taps to delete an email) made me quickly ditch it. I've been using Outlook as my unified inbox on my iPhone and it's…

Yup, it turns out they scaled back the rollout around Christmas to US only and the global rollout is still to come. I realize now that it was during times I had my VPN active on my iPhone in Canada that I could still see the analytics because it was providing me with a US location.

I had this feature in the Twitter iOS app a couple of weeks ago and then it mysteriously vanished. Maybe it had to do with me connecting in the US instead of at home in Canada, I dunno. But even with today's update, there's no analytics for me. Weird.

Word. Way to make a Power Point there, Steve. No doubt your team will Excel this season. Very bright Outlook.

I've never done the mask bit, but otherwise, this article is absolutely bang-on. My wife and I always arrive early to everything - movies, church, etc., but PARTICULARLY the airport, and for exactly this reason - there is no panic in anything. We have time to solve problems and deal with the glitches. Our friends this…

I haven't read the entire comment thread, but please tell me there's a "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" joke in it somewhere. Because NASCAR.

This almost describes me completely. But after trying about a half dozen calendar apps in a year, I just gave up and used the built-in iOS app. The novelty of the novelty wore off (meta novelty?) and I decided I could be more productive by sticking with something long term rather than having to learn all the…