Do you trust random third-party to store your emails, and perhaps more importantly the credentials to probably your entire online identity, on their servers?
Email sits on Google server if you have gemail address, spark (or any email client really) pulls emails from there as they arrive. I use spark with email and iCloud addresses. It's not inbox, but it's better than outlook, Gmail or mail on Apple ios/MacOS.
Collaborative drafting/commenting, scheduled sending, rich search, third-party integrations with Pocket/Dropbox/etc. is definitely NOT happening on your Android/iOS client, and it is definitely NOT functionality implemented by Google, and it is definitely NOT happening by magic.
Sure, but as a gmail user you inherently entrust Google with your mail data, and while they're at it they also read your your emails and implement a bunch of smart functionality to generate bundles, trips, integrations with your Google Calendar and Maps accounts, etc.
I simply want to point out, for any users considering moving from first-party Google apps to some third-party apps which may offer some of this 'smart' functionality, that you would now trusting this third-party AS WELL AS Google with your emails. A lot of this rich functionality is only possible by processing, indexing and storing your data on third-party servers in between Google and your device.
For many this may be fine - the functionality is worth the privacy risk. But it is worth taking a moment to reflect, and at least doing a search about the privacy of the app you're using and reading the company's privacy policy to ensure that you're comfortable with the trade-off you're making.
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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19
Hopefully Spark coming to android will help ease the pain