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Landscape Email Apps - Is Apple Easing Up on Rejection Policy?

Pat:

Downloaded the app, very nice. One question, and there was probably no way around this but is there any way when doing a reply or reply all it can use the original email account the mail came to versus the default mail program?

Thanks,

Steve
 
I've been wanting this feature for such a long time! :D
Apple, you gotta get on the ball.

But props to the developers!
 
scirica said:
Pat:

Downloaded the app, very nice. One question, and there was probably no way around this but is there any way when doing a reply or reply all it can use the original email account the mail came to versus the default mail program?

Thanks,

Steve
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What you have to do is open the message in Mail that you want to reply to, then switch to Wide Email. Leave the subject blank, type your text and hit "send to email" and it will put it into that message. Whatever account you are replying from is the one it will go into, and if you want to change it, just tap on the "from" field and you can choose a different address.
 
Bought WideEmail, only because you posted in this thread Pat. ;)

Seriously though out of the four I would have picked it anyway. $5 ain't happening and the other $.99 version doesn't make it clear if you can reply to email with it like yours does.

Thanks for the work on this, can't believe Apple hasn't made this native.
 
Am I the only that hates typing in landscape mode? The keys are too far apart and it slows me down a lot. They used to use a phrase "mouse miles" as a defense of getting people to use keyboard shortcuts so I guess this could be considered as adding "thumb miles."

Also, it's not like I've got itty-bitty thumbs either so idk...

I guess it's good for those who want I just think it's easier to get used to the portrait layout and you'll end up typing much faster that way.
 
Wide Email

Downloaded the app, very nice. One question, and there was probably no way around this but is there any way when doing a reply or reply all it can use the original email account the mail came to versus the default mail program?

Thanks,

Steve
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Not sure I understand your question. First, you choose Reply from within Mail. That will bring up a compose window. Press the Home button and launch Wide Email. When you tap "send to Mail" it will add the text you've typed to the reply message that you had started in Mail. I guess it will use whatever account you had used when you started the reply in Mail.

Does that answer your question?


Bought WideEmail, only because you posted in this thread Pat.
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Thanks! :D

--pat
 
mortfe said:
Great start, but only says 'email'. What about sending SMS. I think texting is done more than emailing.
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Exactly! I rarely write emails on my phone because it is a paint sometimes, but texting I do all day long. I would pay a small fee for some landscape SMS. I don't see Apple allowing it though.
 
chr1s60 said:
Exactly! I rarely write emails on my phone because it is a paint sometimes, but texting I do all day long. I would pay a small fee for some landscape SMS. I don't see Apple allowing it though.
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It's not allowed evidently according to the rules of the SDK.

I'm not a developer, so I don't know if there are any workarounds...perhaps our resident expert Pat knows better. :)
 
no SMS yet

It's not allowed evidently according to the rules of the SDK.
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That's right. From my digging around in the SDK, there appears to be no documented way for a developer to write an app that sends text to the SMS program. And if there's a hack, Apple probably would reject the program. Let's hope they add this ability in the future.

As I said earlier, if Apple does add this feature to the SDK, I'll certainly add this ability to Wide Email.

--pat
 
thanks!

Spaceboy88: Thanks a lot for the glowing review of Wide Email in the app store!
:)

--pat
 
Spaceboy88 said:
What you have to do is open the message in Mail that you want to reply to, then switch to Wide Email. Leave the subject blank, type your text and hit "send to email" and it will put it into that message. Whatever account you are replying from is the one it will go into, and if you want to change it, just tap on the "from" field and you can choose a different address.
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My testing showed different results. I have an Oracle email account and a gmail account active. I replied to an email in my Oracle account using Wide Email, and the app used my gmail account (which is my default email setting) for the send. I'd like it to work as you described. I realize I can change the account before I send it, but that's an extra step I'd like to avoid.

Steve
 
My testing showed different results. I have an Oracle email account and a gmail account active. I replied to an email in my Oracle account using Wide Email, and the app used my gmail account (which is my default email setting) for the send. I'd like it to work as you described. I realize I can change the account before I send it, but that's an extra step I'd like to avoid.

Steve
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Looking at the email account settings in the Settings app, it looks like emails sent from outside applications (non-Mail) are always sent from the default email account. Seems strange that it would do this even if you started the reply from within a different account. But that appears to be Apple's built-in behavior, so I wouldn't be able to change that with my app.

Is changing your default account to the Oracle account an option for you? Could you set the default for whichever account you do more replying (or more long replies that are better typed in Wide Email) from?

--pat
 
xerxes2008 said:
Not sure I understand your question. First, you choose Reply from within Mail. That will bring up a compose window. Press the Home button and launch Wide Email. When you tap "send to Mail" it will add the text you've typed to the reply message that you had started in Mail. I guess it will use whatever account you had used when you started the reply in Mail.

Does that answer your question?




Thanks! :D

--pat
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Retested...Replied to email that was received in my Oracle account. The app used my gmail account for the send of the reply. Can you test this yourself?

Thanks,

Steve
 
xerxes2008 said:
Looking at the email account settings in the Settings app, it looks like emails sent from outside applications (non-Mail) are always sent from the default email account. Seems strange that it would do this even if you started the reply from within a different account. But that appears to be Apple's built-in behavior, so I wouldn't be able to change that with my app.

Is changing your default account to the Oracle account an option for you? Could you set the default for whichever account you do more replying (or more long replies that are better typed in Wide Email) from?

--pat
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Our posts passed each other in the "cloud". I'll accept that this is Apple's built in behavior, and I still see this as very valuable. I can always change the default or just make the change in the final email before it goes out.

I love this forum...direct access to the developer...very cool!
 
xerxes2008 said:
I'm the developer of Wide Email...



Hope you all like the app!

--pat
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Hi, Pat. I also love the App. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!
I would like to ask a question:
I have two email accounts set up on my iphone...yahoo mail and outlook.

Right now, when I respond to an outlook email via WideEmail, it is sent from the yahoo account (not outlook). I would like to ask there's any way to make an email account "default" for widemail-composed messages when there's more than one account. Or, can you specify somehow which account a newly composed/originated message will go to once you write it in WideEmail?

Thx very much.

Edit: found the answer: Just change default email in "Settings" from the iphone menu.
 
MacRumors said:


This morning saw the release of four applications that offer you the ability to compose emails in landscape mode.

- Wide Email - $0.99
- Sideways - $1.99
- Touchtype (Landscape Email) - $0.99
- Compose - $4.99

Not speaking to the value of these apps, but on the surface it seems surprising that Apple would approve these apps after rejecting some others due to duplicating functionality "without providing sufficient differentiation". Is Apple easing up on its rejection policy?

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i just clicked the link for compose, in the UK app store its 59p which makes $0.99 not the $4.99 it states on here:confused::confused:
 
xerxes2008 said:
I'm the developer of Wide Email...

First of all, the price of the app really is 99 cents, despite what the app's info page on iTunes says right now. The change hasn't propagated all the way through their system yet .. but if you do a search in iTunes, you'll see the correct price of 99 cents, so I'm sure that's what you would be charged. The info page should update soon.

Second, about SMS and reading emails in the wide-screen orientation ... neither is possible with the current SDK. If and when it is, I'll be sure to add those features.

Hope you all like the app!

--pat
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At the risk of gushing like a schoolgirl....OMG! OMG! This is "sooo koal" (val speak). This will be the best .99 I ever spent, I think, and I'm looking forward to seeing a similar app for SMS. Great job!
 
Sticman said:
Hi, Pat. I also love the App. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!
I would like to ask a question:
I have two email accounts set up on my iphone...yahoo mail and outlook.

Right now, when I respond to an outlook email via WideEmail, it is sent from the yahoo account (not outlook). I would like to ask there's any way to make an email account "default" for widemail-composed messages when there's more than one account. Or, can you specify somehow which account a newly composed/originated message will go to once you write it in WideEmail?

Thx very much.

Edit: found the answer: Just change default email in "Settings" from the iphone menu.
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Similar to my request above...according to Pat, this is default Apple behavior that he can't change with his app. I agree that it would be nice if it always replied from the account it was received in regardless of iPhone defaults.
 
I bet Apple was going to introduce landscape keyboarding in 2.2, but it got pushed back and so they decided to go ahead and approve these apps for now.
 
One could be a fluke. Four sounds like policy being ironed out. I hope so!

The only thing that happens more often then people complaining that Apple never adapts or improves... is Apple adapting and improving.
 
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