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Native Gmail Client for iOS is Released [Update: App Pulled]
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Perhaps it is for those challenged users who can't/won't attempt the few simple steps involved in setting this up. I certainly know a few people like that. As in everybody I know except myself.
As a current Android user, I can attest to the fact that this is exactly what it's like.
jW
Looks like it got pulled... Now we wait again..
I emailed the link to myself and got "the Item you tried to buy is no longer available"
I think the app has been pulled from the store. It started installing, and then I got the message about it no longer being available.
Despite the bugs (and lack of QC) in this application, it gives me all the Gmail functionality I need without using the web version. Once this is cleaned up (very disappointing that they would not release it right the first time) it will be very useful to me and many other heavy Gmail users.
hmmm. I just downloaded it. From my iphone, it was on the third page of apps that appeared after typing 'gmail'.
One reason I thought I might use it is the ability to categorize and star email (as well as archive), and, while it can do that, I much prefer the screen size formating that Apple's native app institutes. This version performs like the web version, ie, open an email and have to constantly scroll left to right to read it. Apple's mail app sizes appropriately and you can zoom if necessary.
Will delete (more than likely) as I don't currently see the benefit
One reason I thought I might use it is the ability to categorize and star email (as well as archive), and, while it can do that, I much prefer the screen size formating that Apple's native app institutes. This version performs like the web version, ie, open an email and have to constantly scroll left to right to read it. Apple's mail app sizes appropriately and you can zoom if necessary.
Will delete (more than likely) as I don't currently see the benefit
So how do you guys feel about this app basically being a wrapper for their web application? I've always felt that iOS apps shouldn't mimic something I can get from the web.
How is this any better or different than the default Mail app? I don't know why this app would be necessary or why people are excited about it. Can someone tell me the benefits of this over the Mail app? Thanks.
^^ I agree ^^
As long as you set up your gmail account via Exchange on iPhone, I don't see the need for this app . .
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Hope this is fixed quickly. I need this app ASAP!
Hope this is fixed quickly. I need this app ASAP!
They've updated their announcement.
Update: 11/2/11: Earlier today we launched a new Gmail app for iOS. Unfortunately, it contained a bug which broke notifications and caused users to see an error message when first opening the app. Weve removed the app while we correct the problem, and were working to bring you a new version soon. Everyone whos already installed the app can continue to use it.
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Why did someone downvote this? The statement is 100% true. Gmail on Android is perfect. I was really hoping Google would just copy the exact Gmail design from Android and put it on this app. What a shame...
Maybe Google packaged the distribution build wrong and Apple let it through so Google looks bad
In addition to the push not working, and in addition to the fact that there are no multiple user accounts within the app, I would also like to note that the icon is quite ugly, in that shade of dramatic blue. Why wouldn't it be some sort of off-white or a cream color behind the envelope?
Nitpicky, I know, but that was the first thing I noticed. If the app is ugly before I even open it, I wouldn't have much faith in the actual product. In this case, I'd be right.
Nitpicky, I know, but that was the first thing I noticed. If the app is ugly before I even open it, I wouldn't have much faith in the actual product. In this case, I'd be right.
It's OK for you to complain about other people's opinion posts, for which you paid nothing, but it is not OK for them to complain about an app that, while free, is little more than a wrapper for a web app (except the web app works better)?
Michael
I never had any serious problems with the native mail client on Android. Nor have I had any serious problems with the native mail client on iOS. This appears to be a bungled release that has been pulled by Google to be fixed before releasing again. I'm not sure why the whole thread is going wild over a seemingly minor (although certainly unflattering) event and trying to tar and feather the entire Android family of systems based on a single iOS application release. Reminds me a little of the bungled Mobile Me rollout, but since I wasn't interested in the service I simply left the topic alone. Meanwhile, people who apparently have no interest in Android can't seem to stop themselves from making as much guilt-by-association hay as possible out of this.
You can either do push notifications (with Exchange / Active Sync) OR proper "delete" (using native / IMAP Gmail). If you use Exchange, deleted messages actually get archived into "All Mail". Then you need to delete a second time to get rid of the message. Most annoying is that you end up having a bunch of "unread" messages in your All Mail box.
One other HUGE thing you can't do at all in the native Mail.app:
many-to-many labels. currently, the "labels" are treated as folders -- you put a message in one folder. that's not how GMail works. you can have many labels in gmail.
Most people use multiple accounts, though, and managing two separate email apps is just not good enough. (Except for Android users, I guess
I would venture to say that the far majority of people DON'T use multiple accounts. A few of us geeks do, but most people don't.
This could have been a great, useful app - but it looks like Google has pooped the bed on it. Not even counting the release bug -- that will get worked out. That bug notwithstanding, there are huge problems with this app:
- no multiple accounts
- no iOS5 notifications (seriously? how can you mess that up?)
Yes, this Gmail app is a pile of garbage because it's an "error of the submission process" and indeed, it's "a little surprising that Apple would push the app through with the error" even though, as you say, "the error" is nothing the app's developer "can test" themselves, but Apple certainly should have.
/sarcasm
And when you are in a message and click on the trash can icon, the mail goes to where? (Hint: it's not the trash). That one single annoyance is enough for me to want a native GMail app.