Google Buys reMail, Kills iPhone App
Yesterday it was announced that Google is buying reMail which "downloads all your email to your phone and lets you search it at light speed", and now as part of that deal, founder Gabor Cselle has posted that they're killing the reMail iPhone app, effective immediately [iTunes link dead].
So now we not only have Apple not approving Google apps like Google Voice, we have Google buying companies and killing iPhone apps like reMail? Will this be like Twitter competitor, Jaiku, never heard from again, or will it be integrated into some future Gmail service and we'll get a Google-ized version back on our iPhones one day?
Luckily, the Apple/Google relationship is still steady, steady, steady, right?
[via TechCrunch]
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I'm not the world's biggest iphone expert, but why would you need a mail app on the iphone? It comes with one that you can link up to just about any e-mail account. I got my googlemail account linked up without any problems.
So what exactly did this thing do before?
For me the interesting question has nothing to do with whether or not the app will re-appear.
Its more like why would google want these guys? What did they have that google didn't already have?
Never heard of the app so who cares but screw google anyway. Seems like a petty b.s move to me
lol don't you mean.....stable.... stable..... stable?
I'm not saying that any laws are specifically being broken here, but it seems like both apple and google walk a fine line on anti competitive practices. Is it ok to for Google to buy up Iphone app companies just to kill the app and make it a differential feature on android? Should it be?
Not evil at al...
Valuble Business partners my a$$
@Icebike -- description clarified, sorry!
Remember... The policy is "Don't be evil" not "Don't be a d••k"
I could use an app like that. To bad I only learned about it now. Are there others like it? I find that the built in app doesn't download all emails in their entirety, which is a pain since I'm frequently without 3G or Wifi.
Why would google buy the company and then shut it down?
Simple reasoning: They want to improve Gmail search and/or their mobile apps. They needed the devs to work on more powerful products. Hopefully we can see this as part of the core functionality of a fully native iPhone GMail app. With Labels!
I don't get why people trying to call Google evil. What about Apple buying Lala and Quatro? Shouldn't that make Apple evil.
@Idavey
if a company becomes big enough, people are going to call them evil. People call Walmart evil too
I love Google and I love iPhone. Why can't they just get along?
Seems like a good way for a small company to become a rich group of people is to make a competitive app, and get it well known. Soon enough they will be acquired for far more than they are worth, just so the majors wont have to deal with them. This is like a smaller scale of the silicon valley buyouts and the internet boom.
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