How could Apple screw up MAIL ?

There are a few things I use everyday, and I'm sure most of us use everyday like checking e-mail , how could Apple screw up a basic program like MAIL ? when I'm composing a letter, the document just disappears and thats it... Half the time I can't even click on the save button cause it's un-clickable... I have e-mails appearing and disappearing out of my out-box, my sent-box, and my in-box... what's that ? Then there's the spinning beach ball of death, and I'm having to force quite MAIL at least twice a day... It takes between 1 and 30 min and even more to check my mail, the connection is fine, it's just the new improved MAIL program doing something for my convenience I'm sure... I have to go to my .MAC acct to check e-mails sometimes.... I'm just waiting for the new system update and hoping they fix this ridicules problem... If anyone know a solution to this problem, please let me know...

Sorry, but I totally agree with the original poster. Mail is woefully inadequate, with Apple seeming not to care.
I stopped using Mail.app when Tiger came out. It does not work with my set up.
I'm part of a PC-based network that accesses email via IMAP and since Tiger came out Mail refuses to display email with attachments properly. It doesn't decode them and shows the 'text/plain' attachment information instead, or just displays gibberish text, on EVERY email with an attachment.
This is BOTH ways, I can't receive email from anyone nor can I send email to anyone using mail. I've been using Thunderbird now for a couple of months and find it an excellent replacment, and it works flawlessly.
I don't understand how open source software can be more robust, feature-rich and reliable than software created by Apple, who should have far more resources to throw at it. I wish Apple would scrap Mail.app, take the open-source code from Mozilla, put a Apple GUI on, integrate spotlight, smart folder & address book integration and leave the under-the-hood code to someone else, as they obviously don't seem to understand the technicalities of email applications.
I must have wasted days of researching this problem on the internet to no avail. I've installed every security & system update, hoping that Apple would sort this. I've tried everything, (including using Windows Friendly attachments). But this is a fudamental bug in Apple's way of handling attachments in certain set-ups.
I wan't Mail.app to work, as I would love to use spotlight, address book integration, smart folders etc., but until Apple devote some resources to this I can't use Mail.
I sympathise with the original poster. I've complained constantly about Mail.app and I get frustrated when replies are of the, "it works fine with my set-up" type. It doesn't work for me.
G5, G4, iBook Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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I am normally not a complainer, but rather appreciate great technology.
However, I am shocked beyond description about how badly Apple screwed up the maps application in IOS 6.
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I rely on it all the time. It WAS so incredibly easy to use, and almost always dependable.
Yes, turn-by-turn directions would be nice, but not at the cost of screwing up so many other critical features.
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Yesterday, I had to make a trip to Pacific Sales in San Jose.I tried "Pacific" with the mapped zoomed to the general area, and it could not find it.Then I tried "Pacific sales", again no luck. Its an appliance store, so I tried "appliances", and again no luck.
Finally, I had to log into the web, go to google maps, and find it there.
It was slow, but it worked!
1 month ago, I had the highest confidence in Apple due to their track record of deliverying great stuff that works and is easy to use.
I would never have considered an android phone.
However, this problem with the maps app has so shaken my confidence in Apple, that I will go today to look at a Samsung Galaxy III.
Maybe its not going to be my thing, but I hope Apple realizes how big they screwed up.
The Apple of Steve Jobs would never, ever, ever have let this happen.
The old Apple would have stayed with Google Maps for another year, and made this new maps app better, more reliable, and more user friendly than Android BEFORE releasing it. It would have been revolutionarily good and would have surprised us with how good it was.
I really truly love Apple and its products.
But this is a really bad mistake and I am so fearful that its an omen of whats to come in future from Apple.
I would not be surprised if this very deeply damages Apple at a time when the competition is getting tougher & tougher.
Of all the functions on the Apple Iphone, the maps are the heart and soul. Apple is probably right to go its own way eventually, but not like this!
It is just going to drive people into the arms of Android.
I am just curious, did Apple actually test this thing thoroughly before releasing it?
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hello, i'm just wondering why apple screws the very last penny out of uk citizens.
i watched on youtube a 6 year old kid unwrap his Brand new iPhone 4 he got in the post the day it came out. i was wondering what a rich little brat this kid was, to own a £700 (in the end) iPhone 4?
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naf456 wrote:
hello, i'm just wondering why apple screws the very last penny out of uk citizens.
i watched on youtube a 6 year old kid unwrap his Brand new iPhone 4 he got in the post the day it came out. i was wondering what a rich little brat this kid was, to own a £700 (in the end) iPhone 4?
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US Store: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=OTY2ODA2OQ
man, if i wanted to buy an iPhone 3GS, i would have to save for 2 and a half years, yet if i just lived across the water i would easily beable to afford an iPhone in about a month.
i am the Biggest Apple fanboy in a 30mile radius (maybe even more) and i just can't understand that VAT and shipping tax make the iphone 6X/7X more expensive then america.
for god sake, _an iPod touch 1G still costs more over here (UK) then an iPhone 3GS over there (US)._
there is one Brat around here somewhere, but i don't think it's the little 6 Year old kid, Mr Sir Steve Jobbs?
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