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Gmail Launches Add-ons

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#4
I hope that the 'Quick Links' function from the Gmail Labs will return as an add-on!

On the other, it makes me sad that for my business mail, I am stuck with Apple Mail. I miss therefore many important Gmail features, including security-related features. And Apple Mail has still no reliable support for Gmail drafts …

Re: Gmail Launches Add-ons

#5
We (Streak yc s11) were a launch partner on this and launched our Add-on today. Even though we already have a chrome extension for desktop, add-ons allowed us to live inside the native Gmail mobile apps.

Happy to answer any questions about the add-on platform....

Re: Gmail Launches Add-ons

#6
Gmail is consolidating their dominance with stuff like this. If things start replacing email communication, gmail will just provide it on top which moves us further and further from a standards compliant SMTP GUI that email was.

I haven't found an email client that reliably renders most html, yet we have addons and soon maybe Android apps in your email.

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post #7

Nothing new here, all this and more can be accomplished by a simple browser extension.

We (Streak) are based on a browser extension, but we're actually really excited about this launch since it works on the native Gmail mobile apps and it lets you install addons once and have them work across all your devices.

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#10
Not much info in this particular message, but I wonder if this could be used with GPG to send and receive encrypted emails. I'm sure browser sandboxing would be an issue (hard to keep a key private when it's uploaded to another server and used in a browser window)... but still, the possibility would be pretty awesome.
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