Just something related to Google: does anyone know why there's no Chrome for iOS even though it's webkit based? Or is that just something Google's not interested in making atm?
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Native Gmail App for iOS Reportedly Set to Launch
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and he'd probably be better off giving up on a board filled with nitwits who have such poor grasp of the topics discussed here that they dont recognize a statement so saturated with sarcasm even if it smacked them in the face.
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I'm looking forward to this too. Maybe I can use that over Apples mail client for my Gmail.
I'm looking forward to this too. Maybe I can use that over Apples mail client for my Gmail.
i use osx mail and i get my labels in my gmail account on the left? (in mail not in gmail web)
We're talking about iOS, not OSX. And even the OSX Mac Mail doesn't really support labels. Labels are many-to-many. Folders, as in Mac Mail, are one-to-many.
ahh my bad, 3hrs sleep and trying to help doesnt really do to well....ignore me lol
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Wow. How does this benefit me, exactly? So Google wants me to access my Gmail account via a separate app, vice accessing it via one (Apple Mail).
Ok...but no thanks, Google. What I don't need is more clutter on my iPhone's screen.
Wow. How does this benefit me, exactly? So Google wants me to access my Gmail account via a separate app, vice accessing it via one (Apple Mail).
Ok...but no thanks, Google. What I don't need is more clutter on my iPhone's screen.
There's a solution for that. Don't use it.
There are plenty of people who would and are looking forward to that.
And as "great" as the Apple email app is - it lacks in a few areas and I'm at least curious to see if Google's is better.
Even with push notifications, the emails won't automatically download, will they? Isn't that a limitation of iOS apps? The app would just refresh every time you go into it, unlike Apple's Mail app that can basically break all the rules cuz it's a native Apple app
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wait wait, isn't google the one whining how webapps are the future....
and now they bring a native ios app with MORE functionality?
I dislike Gmail, it looks ugly and there's NO intuitive design, I always have to search for buttons whenever I'm in my Gmail.
and now they bring a native ios app with MORE functionality?
I dislike Gmail, it looks ugly and there's NO intuitive design, I always have to search for buttons whenever I'm in my Gmail.
The one thing I miss (using Gmail on Apple's Mail.app) is the ability to go onto the server to search. If this app has that feature, then I'm sold.
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This is awesome. As someone who has run their own mail servers long before google existed u use gmail for domains exclusively now.
It is worth it just for the spam filtering alone. Only thing I miss is some of the missing gmail functionality on my iPhone so i will be glad to see this. Mail is something google does extraordinarily well. Better than anyone else
This is awesome. As someone who has run their own mail servers long before google existed u use gmail for domains exclusively now.
It is worth it just for the spam filtering alone. Only thing I miss is some of the missing gmail functionality on my iPhone so i will be glad to see this. Mail is something google does extraordinarily well. Better than anyone else
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I have used beejive with googlechat for a few years although with iMessage I don't use it any longer. I did love all my chats being searchable in gmail
MacVault said:
I have used beejive with googlechat for a few years although with iMessage I don't use it any longer. I did love all my chats being searchable in gmail
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You can't think of a use for labels?
Well I have like 25k messages in my main gmail account and hundreds of labels. I don't know how anyone who gets more than 5 emails a day not use them.
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You can't think of a use for labels?
Well I have like 25k messages in my main gmail account and hundreds of labels. I don't know how anyone who gets more than 5 emails a day not use them.
Are you sure this isn't working? I'm able to do this here, although I have Gmail set up as Exchange per Google's instructions. Maybe it doesn't work if you use the Gmail setup which is IMAP rather than Activesync.
Alternately, you've been able to do this from gmail's mobile interface for a long time. Go to mail.google.com from Safari
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It benefits you if you are a weirdo who might actually want the full functionality of gmail which is not available in the native apple mail app.
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It benefits you if you are a weirdo who might actually want the full functionality of gmail which is not available in the native apple mail app.
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I have my gmail set up with imap on my phone and I can search via server right now on the apple app
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I have my gmail set up with imap on my phone and I can search via server right now on the apple app
I have Google set to IMAP (whichever is the default setup when you follow Apple's iPhone setup screens) and then my mail downloads to the Mail.app on my MacBook Pro, so essentially the phone only gets to see the emails I receive in between sessions sitting at my laptop. Which is how I want it. But sometimes I need to go back and search, and it can't. Yes, my current plan is to switch to Safari, log in via the web interface, and do my search from there.
I have GMail synced with my iDevices (and my Mac), and labels work just fine for me. The only pain right now is that to create or delete a label on an iDevice, I have to go directly to GMail with Safari and do it there. But then when I go back to Mail, everything syncs up and works fine. So if you do lots of label management in GMail, the native app might offer a better experience.