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Google gmail goes off line with google gears (official google blog entry) s/gmail/Gmail s/off line/offline s/gears/Gears s/google/Google/g
If you're going to nitpick over something, nitpick over the link being to the front page of the blog, not to the blog post. (Maybe by the time people reading this tomorrow follow the link, Google will have posted something else.)
This is undoubtedly great work from a technical standpoint, but I see the real value here for other types of web apps. Since gmail already supports imap, you could've been managing your mail from a number of free mail clients offline. Just like how Google Maps touched off the ajax craze, this may be more about ushering in a new archetype of offline apps beyond email.
The problem with managing your email from other clients, at least to me, is that other email clients have workflows that don't work with my expectations. I'm so used to using the Gmail key bindings that I find working in Apple Mail or Thunderbird slow and painful. The lack of a native Archive metaphor in those clients causes me further pain. I funnel almost all of my email into Gmail and gave up on local email client…
I, being an infrequent traveller, am almost always online - whenever I am using my laptop, that is. In the age of always-online-everywhere, how many people really find this useful?
While I agree with the coolness quotient, and the technological marvel, here is one for the skeptics: I, being an infrequent traveller, am almost always online - whenever I am using my laptop, that is. In the age of always-online-everywhere, how many people really find this useful?
I, for one, welcome our new offline e-mail overlords. :-)
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Google's audience for reader and docs are in the millions and could hardly be described as "small", just like Gmail has a lot more than "thousands" of users :)
You understood my point :) But gmail vastly outnumbers docs and reader in both security and scale. Thousands of emails and contacts with personal information. Docs and Reader doesn't need to store the contacts or emails of the user. Docs stores data and reader stores stores. You can understand the security complications.
This solves my biggest problem with managing my GOogle account over iMap. When I tried to set it up with Apple Mail I ran into the issue of each label being treated as a folder. This meant that for each label a duplicate of the message was created meaning that I could have up to 4 different copies of any single email.
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I've been waiting for this feature for a really long time. Reminds me of 2005 when I was waiting for them to come out with Calendar and waiting for someone to come out with easy video publishing. Was so happy to see these products get made. The fact that Google controls all my data makes me less happy.
Rather them than any other company in my opinion.
Gears is great. "Flaky connection mode" is even better.
I've been waiting for this feature for a really long time. Reminds me of 2005 when I was waiting for them to come out with Calendar and waiting for someone to come out with easy video publishing. Was so happy to see these products get made. The fact that Google controls all my data makes me less happy.
Rather them than me.
Great feature though, I'm sure this will get more people to install Gears and ensure it's not a "lost cause" for Google. I'm sure Gears is a big part of their strategy for the web now.