Despite Google’s pretty great UI for Web-based Gmail on iOS, the native app has been a unicorn of sorts in the iOS community since the announcement that third-party apps could be written for the iPhone and subsequently the iPad. Seigler writes:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply focusing on the mobile Web (they’ve had a pretty good mobile Web version of Gmail for a while). Then it was the strained (to put it mildly) relationship between Google and Apple. Still, other Google iPhone apps came. But never a Gmail one.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As Seigler goes on to point out, the big deal with having a native Gmail app, as opposed to the Web app version, is Push Notifications. Getting that little bubble, banner, and\/or sound on your iPhone or iPad is huge. And now, with iOS 5’s notification center, it’s even bigger.<\/p>\n
Seigler notes that Google had no comment when pressed about the issue. Despite the silence on Google’s end, if Seigler’s sources turn out to be accurate, a Gmail app could be available on iOS very soon.<\/p>\n
Are you excited for a native Gmail app? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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