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Sparrow also features a nice polished UI, and is responsive.
3-minutes-of-use verdict: GOOD
I've been waiting for a decent iOS Gmail client for so long. This is an excellent first release, far better than Google's own half-hearted attempt. Let's hope they get some traction petitioning for an acceptable method to send push notifications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3706993
I think the issue here is that it isn't really "push" they want to do. From what I can tell, they want to do is simply "run all the time so we can keep a connection open to receive new messages immediately". Which, to be fair, is pretty similar to what Apple does for their push notifications. However, allowing this would be a bad move. It'd mean that rather than once centralized connection that knows about the device…
Good point, that would be a much better solution. All they'd need is a web hook to let them know when there is new email for an account. They could use that to send a push notification with the correct badge count for unread messages.
That's what we should really be petitioning for.
I've been waiting for a decent iOS Gmail client for so long. This is an excellent first release, far better than Google's own half-hearted attempt. Let's hope they get some traction petitioning for an acceptable method to send push notifications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3706993
I think the issue here is that it isn't really "push" they want to do. From what I can tell, they want to do is simply "run all the time so we can keep a connection open to receive new messages immediately". Which, to be fair, is pretty similar to what Apple does for their push notifications. However, allowing this would be a bad move. It'd mean that rather than once centralized connection that knows about the device…
I've been waiting for a decent iOS Gmail client for so long. This is an excellent first release, far better than Google's own half-hearted attempt. Let's hope they get some traction petitioning for an acceptable method to send push notifications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3706993
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I think the issue here is that it isn't really "push" they want to do. From what I can tell, they want to do is simply "run all the time so we can keep a connection open to receive new messages immediately". Which, to be fair, is pretty similar to what Apple does for their push notifications. However, allowing this would be a bad move. It'd mean that rather than once centralized connection that knows about the device…
google has an OAuth extension to IMAP for gmail https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/oauth_overvi...
If that database was unknowingly compromised there could be a lot of fallout. I think that's a much bigger concern than leaking passwords.
I've been a beta tester of their iPhone app for over a month now, and while the UI is stellar, I still haven't found it to be a replacement for Apple's Mail app because of Sparrow's lack of push.