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Alright .. teach me.. Why would you use the google app (knowing google uses your data to make money) compared to the Apple iOS app. What are the benefits. Is it faster? Does it save battery? I just really want to know why this app is being downloaded?.
Apple Mail uses POP/IMAP to access email, while Google's Gmail app uses Google's (what I presume to be) proprietary Google API to get the email. Said to be more secure than IMAP/POP.

What's funny is just today (or this weekend), my work's IT department just shut off POP/IMAP for our email system (which is Google). So now, we have to use Google's Gmail app on our phones & iPads.

On my laptop, I've been trying out Mimestream, which uses Google's API, but is a native Swift, Mac app. It's pretty good for a beta.
 
I use Apple Mail for all my email needs.
I will not have google, Amazon, Facebook Apps on my devices.

I'm almost there. I still use Amazon, but the amount of purchases from Amazon is down significantly. I rather now go to my local brick and mortar stores (small businesses if available). They've suffered enough (yay California).

YouTube is the only Google service I willingly/knowingly use now (although without being signed in). I don't use their Mail, search, maps, DNS servers, etc etc. FaceBook is so 2013 for me now. My account has been closed since then. Most of my social media is kaput. I -try- to be as private as I can online, and not allowed to be a commodity for these large tech companies when I can help it.

So as far as the original article here, for me it doesn't matter how often Google updates their apps (and Apple seemingly to allowing exceptions for them) because it's simply not installed on any of my devices.
 
Alright .. teach me.. Why would you use the google app (knowing google uses your data to make money) compared to the Apple iOS app. What are the benefits. Is it faster? Does it save battery? I just really want to know why this app is being downloaded?.
Gmail has features like Smart Inbox categorization that are not available through the IMAP interface, unfortunately.
 
They need to zoom call fb tech staff and learn how release an update every other day. :p
 
Spark is what I use. Google Mail has a nice UI, but you can't bulk mark emails read, archive, etc.
 
Alright .. teach me.. Why would you use the google app (knowing google uses your data to make money) compared to the Apple iOS app. What are the benefits. Is it faster? Does it save battery? I just really want to know why this app is being downloaded?.

Because the Mail app is broke; ie. I can't count on it and has been since 14.x beta 1?
Still is in 14.5 b2
 
Alright .. teach me.. Why would you use the google app (knowing google uses your data to make money) compared to the Apple iOS app. What are the benefits. Is it faster? Does it save battery? I just really want to know why this app is being downloaded?.
Business/work reasons. Many people choose to have separate email clients for their personal and work accounts, or need to use Gmail because they're in the Google Workspace. With that in mind, Gmail is obviously the perfect client for said email, whereas Apple Mail doesn't play nice with some aspects.
 
Which court will be the one forcing Apple to create privacy info cards for their own apps? This will be great.
 
Can someone explain how this works for me please. Apple is making app developers disclose the data they collect. Is it just transparency or are they making the developers give the users a choice to opt out of that data collection and still be able to use the app. ie, if I do not agree to the TOS, I cannot use the app.
 
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Sure you can. You can checkmark multiple emails, then archive, move to folders/categories, mark as read/unread, etc.
Yeah but you have to manually click them all. Spark has a "select all" option. Unless Google added that since the last time I looked at their app...
 
It'd be nice if these privacy labels had some kind of verification process behind them. They can say anything they want, and slur around the language in such a way that it tells you next to nothing. Good idea, but ...
 
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After neglecting the app for several months, Google today finally updated Gmail on the App Store for the first time in exactly three months.

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in months. Alongside Gmail, Google Meet, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Calander, and Google Tasks have also received app updates today, with Google

Calander?
 
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Yeah but you have to manually click them all. Spark has a "select all" option. Unless Google added that since the last time I looked at their app...
Click on one message, hold shift key down, scroll down to the last message you want mark, move, delete, etc. and choose the option you want.
 
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I find it interesting that it took 3 friggin months to update - guess gmail is just "perfect" that no maintenance is needed within that time. Good for you *sarcastic golf clap*
 
I find it interesting that it took 3 friggin months to update - guess gmail is just "perfect" that no maintenance is needed within that time. Good for you *sarcastic golf clap*
It's even more sarcastic when you consider them pushing updates of their apps every single week, or actually once every 3-4 days even before the entire "labeling" drama.

It sure made me ponder why the 3 digit size updates and them being pushed to us so frequently over the past year(s?)......
 
Search history and location? Seriously???

I'm just puzzled at this point.

Yes. ROUGH location (the privacy card even says rough) using your IP to verify that you are in fact you logging into your account. A security feature that my app like banking apps use. The app has no GPS permissions. That is why it pops are is this you in this city logging in- it uses your IP address.

And search history of your email searches. That is how it has your prior search terms if you want to go back and do the same search again.

This is the problem with Apple's cards. There is not enough detail to explain to people what is actually going on. Most people have no idea what rough location is for instance.

And since we live in the conspiracy theory era now, more needs to be explained.
 
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