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Native Gmail Client for iOS is Released [Update: App Pulled]

dloomer said:
Well, to me, the FB slide-in menu is a great innovation that deserves to become ubiquitous.

Some of the best UI elements in iOS come from duplicating someone else's original idea, and we're all better off for it (see "pull to refresh" which I believe came from Tweetie).
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To a point I agree but on another note I do not. I don't want every application on my phone to operate and feel exactly the same. Granted, I know there are only so many ways you can say pull down a menu, or pull down to refresh. But I just don't want everything ending up the same, it makes the user experience boring.

I would rather someone take it, but make it their own in some form or fashion.
 
Again, how did this get through Apple's supposed strict approval process???

Unless it was only to embarrass Google.
 
Eric0531 said:
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.
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You could work around that behavior by deleting the message when you are in [Gmail] -> All Mail folder instead of deleting the message when you are in Inbox.
 
bushido said:
lol they cant even get a simple mail app working and expect us to believe they came up with android all by themself? hahaha
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I don't think they're trying very hard. iOS is a competing platform, after all. Look at the Google Voice app, it's a crashy, unreliable piece of turd. It was so bad that I removed it, and went back to just using Google Voice features using voice and SMS.

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Eric0531 said:
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.
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It gets archived. I believe the original point of gmail was that you never have to delete anything; it just gets archived away.

You can always go into your archive and purge it if you want.
 
Eric0531 said:
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.
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You need to go into settings and turn off the archive button. It will then be replaced by a trash icon in the mail app. #BOOM :cool: :apple:
 
Just because Google is Apple's competitor and they made a mistake doesn't mean you have to be so doubtful of them. This app looks great to me, and I'm going to use it. You people are all whiny little Apple fanboys. Take a minute to look at the bigger picture and get your head out of your Apple world. The Mail app is not sent by God and there can be alternatives to it.
 
starvingartist8 said:
rofl it doesn't even work. Not that I was going to but this just sets it in stone more that I would never buy a Google Android phone XD if they can't make a simple app for an iPhone god knows what would happen to their mobile OS
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Could you please explain to everyone in this thread what the difference is between Android and Gmail?
 
starvingartist8 said:
you can do that via the mail app too once you set up your google account with it. Honestly I delete and archive each day using the mail app. you just drag it to your All Mail folder or other designated archived folder.
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You can if you use the "Gmail" settings, but that means you have no push notifications.
 
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Does anyone know if the native Gmail app supports/will support sending from multiple from addresses and replying automatically from the address that an e-mail was sent to? I have several e-mail addresses linked to my Gmail account and would love to have these features in a native Gmail app.
 
Lightey said:
Just because Google is Apple's competitor and they made a mistake doesn't mean you have to be so doubtful of them. This app looks great to me, and I'm going to use it. You people are all whiny little Apple fanboys. Take a minute to look at the bigger picture and get your head out of your Apple world. The Mail app is not sent by God and there can be alternatives to it.
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The Mail app annoys me in various ways and once push is working for this I expect I will be using it a lot more than Mail.
 
curtisinoc said:
I think you're correct . . different settings and options depending on how gmail is configured with ios mail app (gmail settings vs exchange settings)
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Yep, and exchange settings means all deleted mail being archived. Which is why I'm looking forward to this Gmail app.
 
zorinlynx said:
It gets archived. I believe the original point of gmail was that you never have to delete anything; it just gets archived away.

You can always go into your archive and purge it if you want.
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But I don't want to have to go to the All Mail folder to delete it ;-)

In GMail's mobile web interface via Safari, if you hit the trash can icon while you are in the message, it moves the message to the trash. That's all I'm looking for.
 
curtisinoc said:
settings on the iPhone or on gmail (web)?
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Forget... some people are mixing and matching exchange and IMAP as if they are the same.

That setting is ONLY if you use IMAP with Gmail--which means no push notifications.

I used to have Gmail setup with both IMAP and exchange. Exchange was essentially just to get push notifications. But most sending, and housecleaning, was done in the one setup for IMAP (same account). But I finally got tired of that and now just have it setup for exchange and if I need to do something not available that way, I use mobile safari. I used to use Safari more often till Google improved searching in the iPS Mail app.





Michael
 
Tinmania said:
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
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HAHA, I get it, I'm complaining about people who complain, sue me. Now quit complaining about it.
 
budafied said:
+1

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...
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Then you, and BoxerGT2.5 are the only 2. EVERYONE I've chatted with, that owns an Android device, states that the native mail app for GMail is garbage.
 
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