It’s my main email client, what’s wrong with it?
1. Searches in Mail are slower and less accurate than web-client searches.
2. No access to Gmail filters. I don’t blame Mail for this, but it is a reason I returned to the web client.
3. Applying labels is harder in Mail. Maybe I missed it, but it wasn’t as easy to apply multiple labels or to apply a label to a draft email.
4. I couldn’t find a Send and Archive feature in Mail.
Basically, I like the Gmail experience. I hate Google, and I’d love to move away from them. I have for search, maps, mobile OS. For calendars, contacts, and mail, Google has the features I like.
What marginal advantage does a third-party iOS client provide, that outweighs the risks of installing another app that is going to spy on me, have weaker integration with the OS and force me to relearn every new UI design language they come up with that in no way resembles the rest of the OS or its function and behavior?
I understand why it might be a deal breaker for you, but browsing email offline is not a use case everyone has.
Thanks for saying this - it’s important to understand that the way things were are not alway the way things are :)
That’s not what the original question was. It was:
> what’s right with [Mail for iOS]
So me implying that reading mail offline is one thing that’s right with it is not invalidated by the fact that it’s not a universally demanded feature (and yes, it has helped me many times, even recently).
Do you really need to remove that feature to build a “better” email client? What exactly is the tradeoff you see?