Comments on: More on the macOSXHints mail client poll

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:31:10 +0000

The poll is irrelevant regarding the quality of the mail clients, Maczealots use anything with the Apple logo.

By: Exilio

Exilio — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:34:14 +0000

These stats are all well and good, but they are misleading, as stats usually are.

If a program goes from one user to 10, oh my god, that is a nearly 1000% increase!!! But, it is still only nine new people. Hell, look at Gmail … and infinite growth!? Amaziiiiiiing. Not really, since they started at zero.

The important number to look at is growth based on actual users increased or decreased. And many of these apps have shown a nice gain. So lets keep the stats in perspective.

By: FJ

FJ — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:09:42 +0000

While we do not use GyazMail in production on the Zone, I have to say it is an impressive little client: its Mail-like interface makes it extremely easy to grasp for most users but its use of orange and yellow make for a cheerier, more attractive ensemble.

Also, while it does not support IMAP, it is a very robust POP client, that can handle some seriously malformed messages without crashing or slowing down. In fact, I suspect most users see it as a “simpler Mail” (it has less account preferences to tweak) and use it as such.

By: ascii

ascii — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:43:28 +0000

There are however other subtle differences between the polls, such as the questions:

What email client to you use on your mac?

and

What is your prefered email client?

These happen to be quite different questions when you consider the volume of passing traffic, ie Windows or other (not mac) users who may answer the second of these questions, possibly distorting the AOL results, but would not have answered the first.