I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to use g-mail via the web-browser, but as far as I know, the mail app. only connects to yahoo mail... that's probably for simplicity reasons.
-Clive
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I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to use g-mail via the web-browser, but as far as I know, the mail app. only connects to yahoo mail... that's probably for simplicity reasons.
-Clive
I was trying to think of the last time I used Yahoo's search in awhile and I come up with nothing. The only thing i've used Yahoo for ever is their fantasy sports.
I was never really clear on why Apple went with Yahoo anyway for email. Obviously, Apple and Google are working together to bring Google Maps to iPhone, so why not just offer Gmail instead (which I and many others find vastly superior to Yahoo mail)? I'm sure Google would be thrilled to be the sole provider of internet services to iPhone users, and maybe that would push them to offer up even more (Google Earth? Google Video/Youtube?) to iPhone users.
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on the other hand the combination could see the iPhone hget yahoo & msn mail and maybe yahoo & msn messenger, so in theory it doubles the options and makes the device potentially more desirable.
Kinda funny how people love to lampoon MS yet Google seems more of a concern on the monoply side these days as the web content is generally device independent. ie Google in a monopoly affects Apple just as much as it affects PCs.
I can't be confident that this is a great change for web users, but combining two major services like this does potentially provide the benifit of reducing the number of apps and sites you need to visit.
Kinda funny how people love to lampoon MS yet Google seems more of a concern on the monoply side these days as the web content is generally device independent. ie Google in a monopoly affects Apple just as much as it affects PCs.
I can't be confident that this is a great change for web users, but combining two major services like this does potentially provide the benifit of reducing the number of apps and sites you need to visit.
Say MS buys Yahoo, couldn't apple then switch all of the apps it was going to use Yahoo for over to google. I mean, honestly, I thought to myself "Why not go all google" during the keynote. This just gives more reason to go that way.
I think that M$ is using the "Zune Defence" and realizes that as a software only company, they can't put out a competitive phone (hardware), they already tried, with the zune, and are probably spread too thin. so they did the next best thing, buy a part of the iPhone, specifically what certain people at M$ are lauding over, the phone browser!
I also feel remourse because I have friends that have Flickr accounts and have frequented there for years... tis a sad state of affairs.
I also feel remourse because I have friends that have Flickr accounts and have frequented there for years... tis a sad state of affairs.
That's funny, I was just thinking that they'd switch to using Google's GMail exclusively.
What do you mean? Yahoo provides the email service, not the browser...the browser is Safari!
What rumor? The deal is on:
http://www.doubleclick.com/us/about_doubleclick/press_releases/default.asp?p=572
That wouldn't go over too well. Aside of adding $99 to an already high price, .Mac is down way too often. In fact, it's down right now.
How ironic.
Not to change the subject or beat a dead horse around these forums, but Apple REALLY needs to enhance .Mac. Actually, the .Mac platform is the probably the only way Apple will compete in the Internet OS age of the future.
Man, someone in 5-10 years is going to come back, read this post and laugh.
-Clive
OH NOOOO!!!!
I don't want my Yahoo Mail to become as bloaty as Hotmail...
But then I guess it could be good (somehow) for Yahoo...
The only good news (for me) is that maybe I could finally access my Yahoo Mail with Safari...
I don't want my Yahoo Mail to become as bloaty as Hotmail...
But then I guess it could be good (somehow) for Yahoo...
The only good news (for me) is that maybe I could finally access my Yahoo Mail with Safari...
After some research on the web - I think it connects to most email providers:
from Apple's "breakthrough internet device" page if you pass your mouse over "Mail" you'll see:
"iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text."
So it looks like it's not exclusive to Yahoo mail. I'd be pretty peeved if I got an iPhone and couldn't check my regular email accounts. I'm pretty sure Apple wouldn't do that to us. So maybe we don't have to worry about the quality of Yahoo's email going down - because most iPhone users will just use their regular email accounts anyway.
I don't see M$ just doesn't buy Google. I'll admit, I'm no business expert, so please let me know (in a nice, polite way of course) why this wouldn't work. I don't really want this, but it's a good way to get rid of a competitor.
.Mac
Well, there is always .Mac. On second thought, let's not talk about .Mac. But I think it goes without saying that any Yahoo! initiatives with the iPhone or even the AppleTV would be pretty much over.
I was actually encouraged to see Yahoo! become part of Apple's plan. Their annoucement got me looking at Yahoo! more closely and I was quite surprised by some of their technologies. There so much potential for joint ventures with Apple. Microsoft will ruin Yahoo! if they buy it. What a shame.
Microsoft is a virus.
Well, there is always .Mac. On second thought, let's not talk about .Mac. But I think it goes without saying that any Yahoo! initiatives with the iPhone or even the AppleTV would be pretty much over.
I was actually encouraged to see Yahoo! become part of Apple's plan. Their annoucement got me looking at Yahoo! more closely and I was quite surprised by some of their technologies. There so much potential for joint ventures with Apple. Microsoft will ruin Yahoo! if they buy it. What a shame.
Microsoft is a virus.
If I'm not mistaken, I think the unique thing about the Yahoo mail is that it is "push" email and not pull. Your regular email account can't push mail out, and if it can, it probably isn't free, like Yahoo iPhone mail is supposed to be.
It's not too easy to buy a company worth $147 billion (Google's approx. current market cap). Microsoft's market cap is about $292 billion. I don't believe Google would allow a Msft. takeover.
The largest merger ever (in the works) is the Barclay's taking over ABN Amro. That deal is worth $91 billion.
I agree, it is a possibility. I would see Apple leaving Google to be self-sufficient for quite some time yet, why break a winning formula. With all the Google labs stuff too, Apple would be buying into future online technologies. A possibility, even if quite small.
Just imagine too how much that would irk Microsoft, Apple would not only own the world's number 1 search engine, but also.......YOUTUBE.
I don't think the issue is wether this is technically feasable or not, but that Yahoo! has far more email users than Gmail or .Mac. If you are a regular user of Yahoo! mail then the iPhone's ability to do push mail is another reason to buy an iPhone. Apple gets to tap into a large user base with a value add for it's product. A Microsoft aquisition would certainly kill that.
A Google enhanced .Mac could be the magic stone for these two birds.