Re:The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0
by moystard on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @01:04PM
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I don't that will happen any time soon. If they do produce an app, they would cut revenues coming from advertising so I don't think it is in their interest. On mobile, the situation is different as mobile users expect to have features such as notifications, and offline browsing (I know the latter can be done using HTML 5 but users' mind is not yet at opening a browser when they know they are offline).
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Re:The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0
by ceejayoz on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @01:23PM
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Huh? Gmail has an app - you're commenting on a thread about its 2.0 release.
Re:The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0
by lotso on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @03:50PM
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Read what s/he said. There is lost ad revenue on a desktop mail client, so the parent is saying that it makes sense for Google to push the user to the web client. This doesn't work on mobile because the user has certain expectations of how mail works on mobile.