How so? The free 1 year Pro came with additional features. There was effort required to activate it, but it was minimal effort. To me it feels like a 1 year demo. I come from a time where shareware stopped functioning after X days (where X was usually a month). So to me, it feels generous.
> but once there was nothing to upgrade from there was nothing free at all.
There is, if you self host. To me, it seems a serious organisation should anyway, for data protection reasons. Right now, I'm hosting the access to my e-mail data in the USA. Sounds good? For a European (individual, for profit, non profit organisation, or government), it isn't. I'd like to not hold that against Nylas, but OTOH they could just provide a self hosting backend server with Nylas N1 anyway. Or inform the user about this at least.
Nylas also plan to offer a limited, free version on top of that.
Its a young company, so they're still figuring out their business models. Its easy to attribute malice to that, but it could just as well be incompetence.
> but once there was nothing to upgrade from there was nothing free at all.
There is, if you self host. To me, it seems a serious organisation should anyway, for data protection reasons. Right now, I'm hosting the access to my e-mail data in the USA. Sounds good? For a European (individual, for profit, non profit organisation, or government), it isn't. I'd like to not hold that against Nylas, but OTOH they could just provide a self hosting backend server with Nylas N1 anyway. Or inform the user about this at least.
Nylas also plan to offer a limited, free version on top of that.
Its a young company, so they're still figuring out their business models. Its easy to attribute malice to that, but it could just as well be incompetence.