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> And having seen Mailbox, it's very competitive with what is IMO the next-best mobile email client, GMail But Mailbox only works with GMail email accounts. I
by citizens 14y ago
> And having seen Mailbox, it's very competitive with what is IMO the next-best mobile email client, GMail
But Mailbox only works with GMail email accounts. I wonder how many users Mailbox would have if Google shut them off.
- pbiggar 14y agoI don't think Google can realistically do that, both from a tech and a PR standpoint.
- makomk 14y agoI didn't think that Google could realistically drop CalDAV either until they did.
- pbiggar 14y agoNot a reasonable comparison, IMO.
- lzimm 14y agoor, of course, there also exists the rebuttal that, uhh, there's no reason mailbox can't work with things that aren't gmail.....
- coldtea 14y agoExcept if, uhhh, they have made too many assumption on Gmail features being available, so that from the backend to the UI layer, it needs a good, over-through, rewrite to work with anything more standard.
- justincormack 14y agoGmail has spent a lot of time making it work well with web mail clients, be fast etc. Other people have not done this much in general, they would probably have to buy someone.
- tmzt 14y agoAnd the forthcoming Dropbox email API? (jk)
- legutierr 14y agoThat actually makes a lot of sense.