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If you follow any number of Silicon Valley insiders on Twitter, you might have seen them blathering on about a new email app called Mailbox for iPhone. Mailbox is an interesting take on the inbox. It forces new user behaviour, which might not necessarily be a bad thing but having used it over the last few days I can ensure you that change is not easy.
Nevertheless, it’s been a popular must-have and now you can reserve a spot in line to get the free app when it launches in “a few weeks.” Want it? Sign up here. You’ll then be sent an SMS with your reservation number, as well as a code, which you’ll need to claim your spot in line when the app is ready to roll. Your spot in line will look something like this:
Mailbox only works with the iPhone and Gmail/Google accounts at the moment. Support for other devices and services will become available sometime in the future or maybe never. For now, Mailbox will be free but the company says it will offer premium features ala Evernote and Dropbox at some point.
Basically, by swiping quickly or slowly, you can delete emails or “snooze” certain messages for viewing later in the day or even next week. From what I can glean it’s meant to help you get your inbox to zero as quickly as possible by organizing your inbox based on when you want to address certain emails. But I’ve only had it for a few days and still learning its ways. Look for something more in depth down the road. [Mailbox]
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I lost interest at “It forces new user behaviour.”
I agree, if there’s one thing school taught me, its that different is BAD.
I will just leave this here.. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2140
Why do these developers constantly only develop for an O/S that has less that 20% market share. On a PC, they mostly develop for Windows as its the dominant platform, so why no love for Android?
Two reasons, although only one seems directly relevant here.
First, they only need to develop for one platform, whereas it seems that getting your application to work properly across a wide spectrum of phone sizes and specifications is a massive pain in the posterior. That said, I can’t imagine it would be that hard for a mail app, would it?
More importantly, iOS may be smaller (although that is questionable in the US where all phones are hugely expensive and the iPhone only carries about a 10% premium and therefore takes 50%+ of the smartphone market), but it’s users are willing to pay for apps. A number of developers have tried and failed on Android after they found nobody on Android would pay for the app. Having to rely on adverts, plus 10* the tech support (see point 1) means it is a lot less attractive to some.
Gah. *its
Edit button, please!?!
Coding for android is shit in the sense that you never know how compatible your app’s gonna be. Just look at super hexagon’s rocky transition to android from iOS (huge compatibility issues with a lot of devices). iOS might be less “prevalent” than android, but the iPhone is the most prevalent phone.
Assure. “assure you that change is not easy”.
It’s not hard to decide which emails to delete, and which to keep for a while.
It appears this system is for retards. Windows users would be the prime candidates of course…