I switched to the gmail app. OMG! Very user-friendly compared to the crappy Apple-default mail app.
Love:
The notifications on Lockscreen
How I can "label"
Love priority inbox
Love the speed
Love how smooth it feels compared to default mail app. Like the graphics better too, have one complaint about new messages not being bold enough.
Eats up less battery (I'd be down to 20% by the end of the day on my 4S, now I have more than 40% remaining after 3 days of regular usage)
Love how it opens its own browser window inside the app instead of going to safari.
Im extremely happy that google decide to do this "pull the plug" maneuver, would not have tried Gmail app if it were not so (yah i know it would not have affected me, but I was going to get another 4S, so it might have). I was on the verge of asking Apple to replace my 4S because of how the battery would be down to 20% in 10 hours without much use.
Im beginning to find out that most of the default apple apps are absolute rubbish
, the free alternatives like Gmail, Chrome, Mercury browser are several grades better than the default crap that Apple tries to push upon us.