Nah, I agree with the author. When I see the Gmail logo in the Android header bar, it doesn't evoke mail like the little envelope did. It just looks like a wide

Nah, I agree with the author. When I see the Gmail logo in the Android header bar, it doesn't evoke mail like the little envelope did. It just looks like a wide, foppish, transparent "M". It's like a single entendre. Where previously it represented "mail" (semantically) and "envelope" (visually), now it simply looks like a nondescript bat-signal.