[biot]

The cloud is always on and online? I don't mean to be argumentative, but your cloud apparently couldn't handle the load. Downloading an email client shouldn't require a "hit by a bus" analysis of the app's creators.

An app can store metadata locally; no need to have that on your servers. No doubt you can do some interesting things by having a server-side infrastructure, but I'm concerned about the security implications. If your server gets hacked, an attacker would have access to all of my email. Not to mention that you would have access to all of my email and why should I trust you?

[brown9-2]

Pure speculation but it kind of sounds like they want to be able to mine some of that data.

[illumen]

It also gives them an extra way to lock users in.

[waseems]

Well thats why we are a 'start'-up, we have the start part down just need to get at he up part :-0