Google Buys iPhone Search App, Kills It 223
Hugh Pickens writes "PC World reports that Google has acquired a popular iPhone application called reMail that provides 'lightning fast' full-text search of your Gmail and IMAP e-mail accounts. The app downloads copies of all your e-mail which can then be searched with various Boolean options. reMail has only been in the application store for about six months — with a free version limited to one Gmail account and a premium version which can connect to multiple accounts. 'Google and reMail have decided to discontinue reMail's iPhone application, and we have removed it from the App Store,' writes company founder Gabor Cselle, who will be returning to Google as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. Google isn't saying what the fate of reMail might be. Some are suggesting reMail could be integrated into Gmail search or live on in some form as a part of Android, Google's mobile platform. Another possibility is that Google may have snapped up reMail just to kill it, not because reMail was a competitor to anything Google had, but because reMail made the iPhone better or the acquisition may have more to do with keeping good search technology away from the competition, as opposed to an attempt to undercut the iPhone. 'Perhaps Google is just planning to buy up all the iPhone developers, one at a time, until Android is the only game in town,' writes Bill Ray at the Register."
Re:I use iGmail for full body searches (Score:5, Funny)
Full body searches is something that is very important for an email app.
I don't know why you like full body searches so much, but I consider them invasive and uncomfortable. But I guess if you like that sort of thing....
Re:I use iGmail for full body searches (Score:1, Funny)
Good heavens. For a second I thought you worked for Airport Security.
Imperial march (Score:2, Funny)
DUM dum DUM dum DA-DUM dum DA-DUM!
DIM dim DIM dim DI-DUM dum DA-Daaaam!
Him hum ha-him hum, ha-hum-ha hum --
ha-him hum, ha-hum-ha hum...
And so began the Imperial March of Google...
Re:Profit (Score:3, Funny)
Anywhere.
Re:Imperial march (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't be Evil? (Score:2, Funny)
You'll need to explain why playing hardball with Apple counts, in some way, as "evil".
it's not evil for apple, it's not evil for the developer, but it _is_ evil for any gmail user with iphone/itouch
Re:Profit (Score:2, Funny)
He's an Apple II Plus BASIC coder you insensitive clod!
And I'd hire him here at Legacy Old Fart Software!
Re:Totally idiotic conclusions (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot should be embarrassed for all the FUD they've been posting
You just summed up the last 10 years.
Re:Fate? (Score:5, Funny)
That's a mighty small value of "permanent".
Re:Imperial march (Score:1, Funny)
Sadly I think he's got the tempo off! Its more of a 4/4 at ~80Hz.
Re:Fate? (Score:3, Funny)
Google's efforts to engineer humans to make them better consumers of their products is not the first.
Apple has already managed to modify their customers to give them limp wrists, and Microsoft modifies their customers by tearing them new assholes.
Re:Fate? (Score:1, Funny)
The Carpenter's Dream: flat and easy to nail
GOTO is evil (Score:4, Funny)
GOTO is evil