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Message collaboration and back channel chat about email messages among team members, which Spark and other apps offer, is a good example of a feature Apple has left to others.

You won’t find every cutting-edge modern email feature in Mail. However, this fall, across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, Apple is finally bringing many of the features pioneered by others to its own Mail app. Mail sat, barely touched on any platform for what seemed like forever. That’s why the situation with Apple’s Mail app has been so distressing in recent years. Remember Sparrow? How about Mailbox or Acompli? Notice a trend? There are still some bright spots, like Mimestream on the Mac and Spark, but with so few survivors, having a strong choice from Apple has never been more important. However, few of them are with us anymore. Over the years, developers have come up with innovative tools layered on top of the core email protocols to improve the experience. One of email’s many problems is how hard it can be to manage the volume of messages so many of us receive.

Tools like Slack have replaced the lion’s share of internal communications at many companies, and a long list of messaging apps have chipped away at conversations among individuals. Email isn’t going anywhere anytime soon despite its flaws.