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Google Rolls Out iPad-Formatted Gmail

I just loaded up my inbox with safari with the iPad's user agent, looks pretty good. Seems like it will be pretty easy to finger navigate.
 
Instead of this, why doesn't Google built "PUSH email and PUSH calendar" system?? This way it frees up the Microsoft Exchange system for work related mail/calendar.

If Google has "PUSH" technology built in then everyone with iPad, iPhone, Android...etc could just set up the gmail account with the built in mail function of the device.

This is a waste of time!
 
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It looks nice, but I'd still rather use the built in mail app. Glad to see them moving forward with ipad support tho.
 
It seems nice enough, although I didn't really see any problem with using the regular interface on the ipad, since the screen is so large.
 
Why can't the iPad not just use the real internet instead?

All these special sites for special browsers and hardware are from the last millenium. ("made for Netscape")

:confused:
 
zacman said:
Why can't the iPad not just use the real internet instead?
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Uh, it can, it's called choice.

Optimizing it for the iPad just recognizes this is a totally new interface, so the site should move into the future with it.

But if you want the old Web interface, it's there for you too.
 
mmmmhhhhhhhhh

:rolleyes:

There's enough free space in there to place a much bigger battery.
 
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ChunkAhoy said:
:rolleyes:

There's enough free space in there to place a much bigger battery.
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Wrong thread?
 
newagemac said:
Uh, maybe the fact that it's multi-touch based?
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There is no web standard that supports any multi touch hardware. As I already said creating websites for proprietary hardware or software is from the last millenium.
 
zacman said:
There is no web standard that supports any multi touch hardware. As I already said creating websites for proprietary hardware or software is from the last millenium.
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Your not, you're creating it for HTML5 Standard and many other tablet (and high definition mobile devices, not just from apple) ... which is what is happening NOW and will continue to grow as these devices catch on.

People didn't stick with JUST coding HTML, then DHTML, then Flash, now more Ajax based technologies, the web has always been and always will be a moving target.


That and pinch to zoom means you're not coding for 1024 either, you can code for much larger, but 1024 has been the standard (read the new 800x600) for the last two years.
 
why can't you just use the built in mail app? Then at least you get offline support for existing mails and don't need a network connection all the time
 
mrklaw said:
why can't you just use the built in mail app? Then at least you get offline support for existing mails and don't need a network connection all the time
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This has become a very common comment from Apple users. If there is already one way to do it, why would you need another? Not everyone has the same preferences for applications as Steve Jobs, something PC users have known and embraced for years. For example, Gmail formats messages almost like text messages or instant messages, where the message and all replys are right there in the same window, so you don't have to go back through months of emails to get the whole "conversation." Is it for everyone? No, but many people like it that way. Diversity is good :)

I appreciate Google's support for the iPad. If Google were Apple I wouldn't expect the same treatment ;)

P.S. I also have a Look bicycle frame!! (read the emails in the SS)
 
mrklaw said:
why can't you just use the built in mail app? Then at least you get offline support for existing mails and don't need a network connection all the time
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Well for me I plan on having it with me at work as well, this way I can set up Mail and calendars etc for my exchange account and still manage my personal GMail accounts online with a decent UI .
 
btcutter said:
Instead of this, why doesn't Google built "PUSH email and PUSH calendar" system?? This way it frees up the Microsoft Exchange system for work related mail/calendar.

If Google has "PUSH" technology built in then everyone with iPad, iPhone, Android...etc could just set up the gmail account with the built in mail function of the device.

This is a waste of time!
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apple only allows yahoo push for the mail app. you are barking up the wrong tree here.
 
ruinfx said:
apple only allows yahoo push for the mail app. you are barking up the wrong tree here.
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really? I thought Gmail doesn't do PUSH unless you set it up through EXCHANGE. I thought it was Google issue not Apple. I don't think there's any "not allowed" by Apple. Google server needs to be "Push" enabled.

am I wrong? any experts?
 
btcutter said:
really? I thought Gmail doesn't do PUSH unless you set it up through EXCHANGE. I thought it was Google issue not Apple. I don't think there's any "not allowed" by Apple. Google server needs to be "Push" enabled.

am I wrong? any experts?
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in order for gmail to be push, google has to use the exchange option because mail only allows fetch for imap/pop3. the exception to this is yahoo, which has an exclusive deal with apple. apple could enable imap IDLE in mail, which would allow gmail to be faux-push, but again thats up to apple.
 
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