reMail ‘assimilated by the Google Borg’
“I’m thrilled to announce that Google has acquired reMail!” – gushes Gabor Cselle joyously on his blog Gabour Hits, going on:
“I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team.
“Gmail is where my obsession with email started as an engineering intern back in 2004, and I’m thrilled to be coming back to a place with so many familiar faces. reMail’s goal was reimagine mobile email, and I’m proud we have built a product that so many users find useful. Still, I feel like we’ve only seen the beginning of what’s possible. Google is the best place in the world to improve the status quo on how people communicate and share information. If you have what it takes to make these changes happen, I encourage you to reach out and come join me.”
Yay Google!
Cselle had developed a neat iPhone search app and, “You might be wondering what will happen with reMail’s product”, he says.
Indeed.
Well, “Google and reMail have decided to discontinue reMail’s iPhone application, and we have removed it from the App Store”, he states.
In a comment post, “This is great news for you and Google”, says Mr, continuing, “See, Google is pretty hellbent on destroying the experience as much as possible on the iPhone and that is why they bought your company, so they can remove your app, and possibly incorporate it into the Droid phones.
“I loved reMail. Now I wish I had never bought it.”
Says Anonymous:
“This does seem a little odd. ‘I’m proud we have built a product that so many users find useful. [...] Google is the best place in the world to improve the status quo’ — And so the first step towards improving the status quo is to remove an already-written application which many users found useful? I’m not upset about this in the way Mr seems to be, but I’ve read this article three times and I keep thinking that I must have missed a paragraph somewhere. Something that would say what the problem is with letting the already-existing app just continue to be available to anyone who might be interested in trying it.
“(I don’t use email on my iPod touch, so it doesn’t make much difference to me. But the article does seem odd)”
And in another comment, “I agree with the others that think this is great for you and the Borg, I mean Google”, says DVR.
“But now that you have been assimilated into the collective, where does that leave all the little people that bought your app? Or rather, trusted in you?”
No need to stay tuned.
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