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Chris Scott@chrisgscott · I make stuff for pro photographers.
I can't, for the life of me, stick to using a native email app. It's just so easy to fire up a Chrome tab and open gmail (since Chrome's basically open 24/7 anyway). For some reason, I **want** to be a native app user, but I just always find myself back in Chrome. Can someone chime in and tell me the main benefits of a native app over just jumping into Gmail… See more
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Ben Fox@benjaminefox · Co-Founder, FlowPress
@chrisgscott I have the same issue but I keep trying because I like the idea of a native app. The trouble is that I use things like MixMax that do so much and are Gmail in Chrome only.
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Jeff Nolan@jeff_nolan · VP Marketing at NowSecure
@chrisgscott for folks who are using legacy email servers like Exchange or need a better offline capability, native is pretty compelling. I agree that the Gmail web-based experience is pretty hard to beat for web-based email.
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Shlomo Fellig@shlomofellig · Founder, Outgrow.me
@chrisgscott I really wanted an answer to this. I too inexplicably "want" to go native but have no idea why.
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Chris Scott@chrisgscott · I make stuff for pro photographers.
@benjaminefox yeah, same situation here. I need something to tame the beast and I love the idea of a nice, clean native app. I just can't get any of them to "stick".
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Chris Scott@chrisgscott · I make stuff for pro photographers.
@shlomofellig it's so funny how we have this unexplainable desire to find a native app. Always searching for something better, I guess.
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Chris Scott@chrisgscott · I make stuff for pro photographers.
@jeff_nolan yeah, that definitely makes sense.
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David Cizek@dadc · founder, Origamica
@chrisgscott 2 years ago I was using native and "wanted" to use webapp but always found myself in native app 😄 Then become important: 1) minimum used disk space (I upgraded to ssd) 2) no config when reinstall comp (I had to make it 3 times that year) and 3) not to be always on 😄 … yes still I'm always in the browser but not in gmail. NativeApp is usually r… See more
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Chris Scott@chrisgscott · I make stuff for pro photographers.
@dadc agreed, especially on #3.
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Martin Garrido@89nodes · Product Designer
@chrisgscott One of the reasons that why I love some native apps it's because gmail sometimes does not show correctly the body of an email (newsletters for example). Also bugs like horizontal scrolls, misaligned body-texts, etc. Other thing that I always do it is keep my chrome browser lighter without too much tabs running...
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Sohel Sanghani@sohelsanghani · Co-Founder @CanaryMailApp
@chrisgscott Hi Chris, using a native client makes sense for people who: 1. Have multiple email accounts that they prefer to not pool into a common account 2. Need offline access to their email 3. Value snappy performance 4. Need to periodically make offline backups of their email 5. Prefer to have notifications, unread counts in the dock & menu, etc, e… See more
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Chris Scott@chrisgscott · I make stuff for pro photographers.
@sohelsanghani very helpful. Appreciate you chiming in! I love the idea, just need one of them to stick for me.
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Solon Angel@sangel
@chrisgscott the gmail web app is becoming so slow and bloated, crashes often for me - plus if you use keyboard shortcuts its more effective in a native app... I like the ability to have a native app for both laptop and mobile. Used to love mailbox but somehow they didn't deliver, wonder who in between these guys, spark and polymail will deliver a full relia… See more
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