Apple and Microsoft are trillion-dollar companies, very successful, have lots of smart people so why can’t either of them figure out how to have an email program without glitches? Email has been around for a few decades, so you’d think they’d have figured it out.
Apple mail stalls on my laptop when getting new messages. Sometimes to the point of having to close and reopen the program. It slows down my desktop to the point I don’t use it anymore.
Therefore, I use Outlook on my desktop (and Jessica uses it for business email). We agree, it has a horrible search function, you can’t drag emails from one folder to another, and it keeps refreshing itself. Most annoying is when all of the emails in the Inbox disappear and you get a cheerful message about how nice it is to have an empty inbox. Then they reappear, sometimes with new date and time stamps. Sometimes with duplicate copies. Friends have shared they have issues also, some the same, some different.
Outlook is over 30 times as big as Apple Mail, Contacts, and Calendar combined. And when things get that big, they’re like how battleships can’t maneuver fast, like an attack boat. Are both companies filled with people trying to make things perfect?
Just like in business. Small businesses should be able to move faster and have more flexibility than large ones (Amazon maybe being an exception). It’s one reason why people want to own a business; so they can make decisions and see the result of their actions.
And now is a good time to buy a business, or buy another one. Any time there’s a catastrophic event, like Covid or the recession (or both), it pushes owners thinking of exiting over the tipping point. To take control and benefit themselves from their hard and smart work.
“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.” (Author) Terry Pratchett
