The Problem With The Gmail iOS App

A few days ago Google re-released their highly antic­i­pated Gmail iOS app. After open­ing it you’ll quickly real­ize that its not the highly pol­ished app that peo­ple were wait­ing for. Infact it’s noth­ing more than a wrap­per around the stan­dard web inter­face. Granted Google is a web com­pany but they should make a com­mit­ment to be good cit­i­zens when writ­ing apps for other plat­forms. When Google Chrome was first released the Mac and Linux ver­sions were delayed because they chose to imple­ment them natively instead of using a com­mon run­time. They wanted to make sure that Chrome per­formed well on each sys­tem. When it comes to mobile devel­op­ment they do not seem to take the same care to make sure the user expe­ri­ence is of the high­est qual­ity on each device.

It seems lately Google has been putting out sub­par prod­ucts. I believe Google should make a company-wide com­mit­ment to build apps to the high­est stan­dards on each plat­form both desk­top and mobile.