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iPhone OS to Gain Universal Inbox for Mail?
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So if Steve is so glad to answer personal emails, can't we just ask him directly about stuff instead of speculating and guessing? But we have to make sure the questions can be answered by either Yes or No, instead of requiring a more elaborate argumentation.
For example: Is the next release of OS X really going to be called Cougar?
or: Will the next iPhone support multi-tasking?
or: Can I has cheezburger?
etc...
For example: Is the next release of OS X really going to be called Cougar?
or: Will the next iPhone support multi-tasking?
or: Can I has cheezburger?
etc...
He's a man of remarkably few words when he's not on stage
These are also so cryptic that they can be plausibly denied.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Let's hope the existing option is not dropped Universal Inboxes are stupid. One of the reasons I have a Yahoo account is for the very reason of having a destination for stuff of low importance.
The only way it would be even half way acceptable is if mail sorting was brought to iPhone. Even then it is a management problem. Some things aren't broke and don't need fixing.
Dave
Let's hope the existing option is not dropped Universal Inboxes are stupid. One of the reasons I have a Yahoo account is for the very reason of having a destination for stuff of low importance.
The only way it would be even half way acceptable is if mail sorting was brought to iPhone. Even then it is a management problem. Some things aren't broke and don't need fixing.
Dave
I hope this isnt the only new "feature" in the next iPhone OS. I can think of plenty better features such as universal notifications LOL. But at least theyre making some progress...
Good god no!
Universal inbox would be awful...like WinMo. What they need is a two finger gesture to switch between inboxes quickly. Like a two finger side swipe.
Besides with IMAP and Exchange what sense does a single inbox make? That would only matter with POP3.
Universal inbox would be awful...like WinMo. What they need is a two finger gesture to switch between inboxes quickly. Like a two finger side swipe.
Besides with IMAP and Exchange what sense does a single inbox make? That would only matter with POP3.
What I would like is the ability to view the email notification on the lock screen, without unlocking it, going into mail, selecting the account, etc, etc....
It'd be nice if you can quickly preview it, and have an option of opening it or marking it as read.
It'd be nice if you can quickly preview it, and have an option of opening it or marking it as read.
Yes, the fact that it is an identified new feature necessarily means it is the only new feature. After all, Apple only ever adds one new feature to each OS version.
not that I doubt these all, but really, how much stock can we put in them? It would be the easiest thing in the world to fake something like that... especially now that people hear these stories, i'm sure there is going to be a ton of fake ones coming out.
Seriously folks. The way it is generally done (and the way Apple did it in mail.app on mac os x) is that you have a pseudo-mailbox you go to where everything is combined. Instead you can jump back and forth between each mailbox if you want. The combined view behaves just like another mailbox.
Why do people keep saying this.
if it is done like it is done on Blackberry it would be really useful.
On the Blackberry you have the Universal inbox which you can choose what accounts appear in it along with the option of having SMS/MMS to appear in it as well.
At the same time it has separate inboxs for everything that are quick and easy to access. This means you can look at all your email across all your accounts in one spot but if you want to look at lets say just Work email address you can pull up just that one with out any problems.
Come on people... you're going nuts because you can't grasp how this works?
Anyone who has ever used Apple Mail knows that all of your mailboxes are under a single 'Inbox' parent.
You can view individual mailboxes just as you normally expect them to work, however the added benefit is if you select the parent 'Inbox', it shows you email from all mailboxes.
geesh...
Oh really? I been after something like this for ages. I don't want to have to jailbrake though to get this. It will hopefully be standard in the next update. I do use growl in OS X though
Go get the app named 'Boxcar.' No jailbreaking needed!
No, there are 2 types of people:
1) People who are for it.
2) People who really don't understand it.
There is no way to be "against" this if you know what it is. It's just another folder. Click on it if you want it, don't click on it if you don't want it. There's no way to be against that (that I can see, anyway).
Whether you are for or against it, it's amazing this isn't even available this late in the game.
I'm guessing that all the people who don't like the idea of a universal inbox are not familiar with the Mail client on the Mac.
You, quite easily, have the option to view all inboxes together or to filter it by the account you choose.
The form factor on the iPhone would require a different set of user interactions than on the Mac, but the idea is still the same.
For me, I'm really happy to hear this, though I never had any doubt that they were going to add this. It was just a matter of time as to when. Which frankly is still an open question. None of the replies by Jobs tells us which release these features are coming in.
Hell, its a bit like cut/copy/paste. Of course it was going to come to the platform for the iPhone.... The difference I see is that at least Apple (or Jobs for that matter) is letting people know these features are coming.
You, quite easily, have the option to view all inboxes together or to filter it by the account you choose.
The form factor on the iPhone would require a different set of user interactions than on the Mac, but the idea is still the same.
For me, I'm really happy to hear this, though I never had any doubt that they were going to add this. It was just a matter of time as to when. Which frankly is still an open question. None of the replies by Jobs tells us which release these features are coming in.
Hell, its a bit like cut/copy/paste. Of course it was going to come to the platform for the iPhone.... The difference I see is that at least Apple (or Jobs for that matter) is letting people know these features are coming.
Good idea, but how about the ability to collapse the Exchange mail folder hierarchy? It takes a long time to scroll through my many hundreds of folders and it would be great to be able to expand / collapse portions of the tree at will
This is KEY. Expand/collapse should be an option by folder/subfolder as it is in Mail.app on the Mac. It also remembers the last state when you quit and restart. The iPad app should do this too.
Agreed. It also makes searching a pain. Can't search across all messages currently, only within the mailbox you're currently in. A real PITA. Mail on the mac allows for either. The iPad version should too.
Others have already responded to this, but let me add my own +1 to those responses. Your use case is yours, not mine.
Exactly.
for the love of god, i pay $99 a year to use MobileMe.....yet I can't use my alias accounts on my iPhone.......um, why?
fix this Steve-O....it's your own damn product for crying out loud.
fix this Steve-O....it's your own damn product for crying out loud.
You're beautiful, man. I didn't know this app existed, but I will go grab it right now.