> I'm surprised they don't recommend using this API to > build full email clients. I fully expected that to be > one of the core use cases. I didn't see to

> I'm surprised they don't recommend using this API to > build full email clients. I fully expected that to be > one of the core use cases. I didn't see today's API announcement, but I'd be surprised if they wanted to encourage that. Similar to how Twitter doesn't want you to write full-fledged Twitter clients. If we write full-fledged Gmail clients, won't they miss out on the ad revenue? Maybe not; maybe they're just glad to tie us to their service and data-mine our emails even if we're not using Google's web client. Still, I'd be scared of basing a lot of work around this API, since they have a history of deprecating and discontinuing things in the past...