krautjakob

The Australian state now behaves exactly like an enemy of the people would. In the same way I would not use an e-mail provider in Iran, North Korea, the US or other facist regimes I will now also not use an Australian e-mail provider.

Considering most of my private E-mails are amazon order confirmations and other automated crap ... I really have to think about it.

ProtonMail costs 8€ per month, almost twice as much as Fastmail. I'm not sure yet if I'm willing to pay that much. I guess I'll check out the other mail services listed on privacytools.io

Ouch.

Since I'm using Fastmail ... can anybody recommend a good alternative? I don't mind paying for a good and secure E-Mailprovider.

Protonmail looks nice, but it does not seem to offer IMAP (because mails are end2end encrypted).

I'd be happy if Siri were finally able to understand a proper sentence at least most of the time. That would be helpful.

Who ares about the market share or the desktop? Microsoft does not make significant new revenue from their installation base. Google however does with their platforms (web and mobile), so does Apple (on mobile mainly).

I think it's very interesting to see an internal MS manager with a background in Bing and Azure to become CEO, interesting times are sure ahead.

Thanks for your feedback and judgement. It's somehow coherent to what I thought evaluating it. While everything appears to be nice and well thought I kept asking myself: Will learning all that stuff (as well as Spring & other Java bloat) be really worth it? And if it is: Who develops in Grails anyway, will I find developers for my neat little Web 2.0 Apps?

So I will have a closer look at Sinatra / Spark which really seem a great approach to develop small-medium web apps. Previously I had my doubts about their capabilities (it appears too simple), but seeing the traction those technologies have might convince me otherwise.