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iPhone OS to Gain Universal Inbox for Mail?

Sent from my iPad?

"Sent from my iPad"? That's a first for Steve replies, isn't it?

I just love how some people here describe Steve as "awfully talkative lately" because of these mail replies. Let's see, in the last 3 weeks he has said the following:

- No
- Not to worry
- Yep

Yeah, that's awfully talkative. Where does he find the time for all that? :D
 
akac said:
I suppose that's useless if all you have is inbox, trash, sent. But for me and many others who use IMAP and have any number of mailboxes, the mail app would be useless without that.
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anthonymoody said:
Others have already responded to this, but let me add my own +1 to those responses. Your use case is yours, not mine.
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I never said to remove those functions—merely that they’re useless when you want your Inbox, which is what people use FAR more often than any other box (Sent, Drafts, Trash). So I said to move them to separate button. (Maybe right next to each account name, or on top of the Inbox, or wherever Apple might find that makes sense.)

It needs those functions, yes—but it doesn’t need to make you go through a screen listing those functions EVERY time you enter OR exit the Inbox. Those should be accessible by a button, not shown every time. Make the Inbox one tap away, and the other boxes two taps away (which they already are—so there is NO lost convenience for people like you who use those other boxes constantly).

Now if you have multiple inboxes/storage boxes, then that intermediate screen makes sense, and I have no objection to showing it in that case. But again—show it when people NEED it, not ALL the time. The app should be smart enough to know when you have extra boxes and when you don’t.
 
Small White Car said:
Why?

The "random person's question" e-mails that get reported here (which I'd imagine are most of them) work out to about 3 words a month.

I don't think that's gonna kill him.
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At my wife's last job, she was getting an average of 150-200 emails per day. I would imagine that a man like Steve Jobs gets far more than that, and is too busy for even one or two word responses to random strangers. Though I suppose it could be his way of unwinding and getting away from all of the other Apple-related business.
 
rwilliams said:
At my wife's last job, she was getting an average of 150-200 emails per day. I would imagine that a man like Steve Jobs gets far more than that, and is too busy for even one or two word responses to random strangers. Though I suppose it could be his way of unwinding and getting away from all of the other Apple-related business.
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I suspect he has minions whittling through stuff sent to his public email and only forwarding tidbits.
 
grahamwright1 said:
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 :)
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2nd-ed
 
As others have said, I think this is a good idea, as long as it is an optional, additional way of seeing your mail rather than a mandatory change.

Giving your users options is a good thing. Something I wish Apple would realise more often.
 
Let us keep our separate inboxes please....give people the option to have one...don't force it on them...not all of us want this.

I'd be willing to bet this will be yet another "Apple way or the highway"...screw consumer choice...just like Obama and Congress did. Thank god for the jailbreak community...sensible solutions to Apple's stubborn ways.
 
akm3 said:
-1
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+1*10^23

I don't like this idea. It will make email on the iP* devices too cool. If they keep making all these improvements, they will drive their competition out of business and then I will be forced not to like Apple.

Please Apple, can you please decool your UI just a bit?
 
enberg said:
I suspect he has minions whittling through stuff sent to his public email and only forwarding tidbits.
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That sounds like a good question to ask. My question that I will not ask because it will not be answered, what name does he go by on forums like this? Anyone with a sense of humor (I am quite sure he has one) would be very tempted to make a post from time to time.
 
RalfTheDog said:
That sounds like a good question to ask. My question that I will not ask because it will not be answered, what name does he go by on forums like this? Anyone with a sense of humor (I am quite sure he has one) would be very tempted to make a post from time to time.
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*LTD*
 
str1f3 said:
How cool is Jobs? Even Eric Schmidt calls him the best CEO on Earth. The guy answers your BS questions even when no CEO is as busy as he is. The word cool is thrown around way too much but he is one that is deserving of that title.
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you don't actually know that these mails are from steve jobs.
it's probably the marketing dept. sending these mails.
 
paparuski said:
While universal inbox would be great, for me , more importantly, would be ability to move messages while off-line. Could do it on my old windows pda and makes great use of time (on airplanes) where you are not connected but would like to clean up / organize.

Then, upon reconnect, the server is updated.

Wishing/hoping....
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unless i have misunderstood you: what is stopping you from doing this on the iphone now? work fine for me now.
 
Good I guess… but how about some basics. Like Keychain support for both Mail and Safari. S/MIME, certificate sign-in… You know, basic security :rolleyes:.
 
Gav2k said:
But I prefer the seperate inboxes.
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Separate inboxes will probably still be available, if they just add a general 'inbox' at the top of the list. I agree with several posters and the original questioner in that this would make everything easier for those of us who would prefer it that way, but I'd be surprised if they abandon separate inboxes (unnecessarily) to make it 'right' for us.
 
While this is great, I hope they make it optional. It's very important for me to keep my work Inbox 100% separate from my personal inbox. When i'm browsing e-mails from my friends, amazon, family, newsletters, I don't even want to SEE my work e-mail. On the flipside, when i'm in work mode, i don't want that other crap on my screen.
 
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