reMail: Google buys awesome iPhone app, kills it

Re:reMail: Google buys awesome iPhone app, kills it by trezor on Thursday February 18, 2010 @02:23AM (#1133638)

I've never heard about it before now, and it's already out of the AppStore. Now I'm very much interested, but can't check it out at all.

As much as I like my iPhone it sucks that you can't install random applications from any website like you can on every other civilized smartphone platform. People need to get over the AppStore-concept pronto, at least as the only option available.

As for Google's actions here, I agree they do seem rather dubious and while I can see how they don't want liability and want to do updates/bug-fixes on a paid(?) product they are no longer interested in developing, it certainly doesn't feel like they are follow their so-called do no evil mantra.

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Re:reMail: Google buys awesome iPhone app, kills it by jsz0 on Thursday February 18, 2010 @03:52AM (#1133735)

If Apple doesn't want to ditch the App Store model they could instead offer an iTunes Store widget/checkout system for developers to embed into their sites. Click Buy on the site, authenticate on iTunes, and the iPhone gets a Push to automatically install the app over 3G/Wifi. I'm surprised they haven't done it yet.

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