Hi Alex Put Mailroom on the iPad and I'll buy it without a moment's hesitation. I abhor push notification so I have no issue with it being missing. I would just like to have the same app on both my iPhone and iPad - makes for easier transition between the platforms.
Robert On Feb 11, 2:09 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Alex here from the Mailroom team. Ruben, thanks for the kind support > as always. > > The majority of the negative ratings on Mailroom seem to come from two > places: > 1) People who think it is "just a wrapper" > 2) People who want push > > As a brief aside, it's so hard operating in the App Store and not > having the ability to connect with unhappy customers, especially when > they're unhappy for reasons we could help correct. That drives us > insane! > > Anyway - the "just a wrapper" folks are usually only spending a moment > or two with the app, looking for that "whizbang" moment. The account > saving/switching feature in combination with unread counts (and our > trusty TrueNew counter) makes many, many people very happy. But when > you actually start using the app, so of the most useful features are > ones that you don't even realize are missing from Gmail until you use > them: > - Native iPhone address book support > - Native image/attachment handling > - Offline caching > > Being more abrupt in presenting those features is an option we > considered, but we find that most people love the "just works" > elegance. > > As far as push - we want to do this, too. What we DON'T want to do is > be responsible for storing your username and password somewhere on a > server in order to poll your account for new messages. We've been > talking with some folks from the Gmail team about options, and rest > assured - as soon as we have an option that we think is elegant and > sustainable, we'll have it in Mailroom. > > Thanks for giving it a try! > > -Alex > usemailroom.com > > On Feb 9, 7:20 am, Tim Lahey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Ruben Bakker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the kind words, I appreciated the feedback! > > > Personally, I find Mailroom a good app. > > > > @all: Which iPhone/iPad apps do you use for email? > > > I use a combination. I normally use the standard Mail app since with the > > Gmail exchange support it supports push e-mall. However, for conversations > > with lots of messages it's not as good as the Gmail interface so I'll switch > > to MultiG for those cases. I mainly use MultiG for remembering login details > > so I haven't looked at the other options (although Mailroom looks > > interesting). > > > Cheers, > > > Tim. > > > -- > > Tim Lahey > > PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering > > University of Waterloohttp://about.me/tjlahey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en.
