Larry-G
02-11-11, 20:38
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Well that didn't last long. Google's hotly anticipated Gmail iOS app lasted all of an hour in the App Store before being pulled due to a notifications bug.
"The iOS app we launched today contained a bug with notifications," reads a tweet from the official Gmail Twitter account. "We have pulled the app to fix the problem. Sorry we messed up." Well at least it owned up to it pretty quickly.
Twitter was ablaze with people complaining about the app. CNET's own Sharon Vaknin tweeted: "Google releases a native Gmail iOS app that looks like the web interface and the entire internet explodes. Rightfully so."
So what was the issue? The app didn't appear in the Notifications submenu in iOS5, nor did you get a notifications entry when you accessed the app from the global iPhone settings menu, reports CNET. Bit of a fail all round then.
The app also didn't support more than one Gmail account, so bad luck if you wanted to use it with personal and business Gmail accounts, and was generally a bit of an eyesore.
It's quite surprising Google could release an app that's so obviously not ready for public consumption. Maybe it was too busy rolling out the Gmail redesign, or bringing Streetview inside various businesses around the world. Or putting the finishing touches to the Ice Cream Sandwich build of Android. Either way, a Google Buzz-style fail is unacceptable. (For those lucky enough not to know about Buzz, it was a failed attempt at social networking that the company recently decided to axe in favour of pumping resources into Google Plus.)
Did you download the Gmail app in the brief window? What did you make of it? Let us know
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/google-pulls-gmail-ios-app-due-to-notification-bug-50005917/
Well that didn't last long. Google's hotly anticipated Gmail iOS app lasted all of an hour in the App Store before being pulled due to a notifications bug.
"The iOS app we launched today contained a bug with notifications," reads a tweet from the official Gmail Twitter account. "We have pulled the app to fix the problem. Sorry we messed up." Well at least it owned up to it pretty quickly.
Twitter was ablaze with people complaining about the app. CNET's own Sharon Vaknin tweeted: "Google releases a native Gmail iOS app that looks like the web interface and the entire internet explodes. Rightfully so."
So what was the issue? The app didn't appear in the Notifications submenu in iOS5, nor did you get a notifications entry when you accessed the app from the global iPhone settings menu, reports CNET. Bit of a fail all round then.
The app also didn't support more than one Gmail account, so bad luck if you wanted to use it with personal and business Gmail accounts, and was generally a bit of an eyesore.
It's quite surprising Google could release an app that's so obviously not ready for public consumption. Maybe it was too busy rolling out the Gmail redesign, or bringing Streetview inside various businesses around the world. Or putting the finishing touches to the Ice Cream Sandwich build of Android. Either way, a Google Buzz-style fail is unacceptable. (For those lucky enough not to know about Buzz, it was a failed attempt at social networking that the company recently decided to axe in favour of pumping resources into Google Plus.)
Did you download the Gmail app in the brief window? What did you make of it? Let us know
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/google-pulls-gmail-ios-app-due-to-notification-bug-50005917/