Google Buys reMail iPhone App, Takes it Off Apple
Google's been on somewhat of a spending spree as of late and this week, the company continues its shopping binge with the acquisition of reMail, a company responsible for an email search application for the iPhone.
For those of you who haven't heard of reMail, it's basically an iPhone app that downloads all your mail to your phone to provide offline search for mail. Though it sounds daunting, the reMail team can reportedly squish 100,000 emails into 500 megabytes, which is just a sliver of the space on your phone. A search through the iPhone's mail app might take 10 seconds but reMail can perform the same search in just two so you can imagine how useful it was for people who had ponied up the cash for it.
While financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, it looks like Google first and foremost wanted reMail removed from the App Store. reMail CEO Gabor Cselle blogged about the acquisition and informed users that he would be taking up residence as product manager on the Gmail team. Cselle detailed that he and the team at Google had "decided to discontinue reMail's iPhone application." reMail is no longer available from the App Store.
So, who wants to bet we'll see reMail for Android in the very near future?
Read Cselle's full post here.
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Great for Google and remail, I guess. Bad move though to discontinue support and have users stranded. I know MS wouldn't get away with it and Apple would get lots of hate mail too. Let's hope Google stays sane. Seems like they're going the wrong way. (Just when I started to think about Android to be on my next phone.)
Looks like the dark side of Google is beginning to show.
An eye for an eye makes the world go blind. But Apple is blind to begin with.
So Apple's fiercest competitor is not Microsoft, it's Google! Go figure!
Email search is what google does best... its only natural that they wouldnt want competitors doing it.
Wow, Google has done a better job destroying Apple in the past months (or even weeks)than Microsoft in 15 years. The end of the iPhone era is coing very quickly.
take that apple!
Google: "Apple, your apps are belong to us!"
Google: "Apple, your apps are belong to us!"
The correct connotation would be:
All your app are belong to us!
Looks like the dark side of Google is beginning to show.
Dark? They are doing this in retaliation for all their apps that were banned from the app store! I support google in this decision, Apple shouldn't get away with their arbitrary anti competitive bullshit!
500MB is a sliver? My phone has 8GB of space and only 7.08GB is actually available to me. 500MB is 14% of all available space on the device; that's hardly a sliver.
Cant anyone else make similar program, then Google would have to buy THAT one too. Lol.
But do you have a 100,000 emails in you directory that was the ratio, 100,000 to 500mb.
The plot thickens..
I think this move is bordering on evil. It's at least hateful.
But I'm not dissing Google. I think it is a good business strategy move.
Perhaps Google just wants the ReMail technologie to implement into Gmail?
This is no different than when Nvidia bought Aegia for the PhysX technology. I think it's retaliation for Apple pulling Google off the default search for the Safari browser in Macs, iPods and iPhones. There are always consequences in life for each decision made. Both parties will live or not live with the decisions.
Google vs. Apple. This thing is getting ugly real quick.
Today one iPhone app... tomorrow world domination!!!
Mwahaaahaahaaa............
Google should just buy Apple, liquidate them and be over with it...
Google should just buy Apple, liquidate them and be over with it...
Apple market capitalization: $184.01B
Google market capitalization: $172.33B
Just how do you buy a company which is worth more than you are?
Google made a bad decision to steal Apples ideas and copy there phone –
I think its backfired and now they are in a desperate need to save them selfs by trying to get them selfs onto the Iphone.
When people get to find out Google owns the App they will just not use it. I heard that Bing will be made the search for Iphone so that will just finish Google - seeing that the Iphone/Ipad will slowly become everyone’s main system.
Wow, Google has done a better job destroying Apple in the past months (or even weeks)than Microsoft in 15 years. The end of the iPhone era is coing very quickly.
Microsoft saved Apple from bankruptcy in the 15 years - so somehow destroying Apple is not a motivation for them. Apple would have been dead a long time ago - Thanks to Microsoft they survived the last 15 years.
Google made a bad decision to steal Apples ideas and copy there phone – I think its backfired and now they are in a desperate need to save them selfs by trying to get them selfs onto the Iphone. When people get to find out Google owns the App they will just not use it. I heard that Bing will be made the search for Iphone so that will just finish Google - seeing that the Iphone/Ipad will slowly become everyone’s main system.
Google did not steel Apples Ideas - Google and Apple And Microsoft built upon an old idea that was already there
Google is not finished by Bing and the Iphone in the enterprise environment is a joke. So call it a hunch but I don’t believe Iphone will be the “main system”
However keep drinking the Kool-Aid - the second coming has incarnated into a Iphone/Ipad.
Apple is the company that tom's readers love to hate. Google's move in acquiring Gmail is competitive; no more, no less. If Apple wanted to strike back, they could assimilate similar features into their email app that is already standard to the iPhone.
Apple market capitalization: $184.01BGoogle market capitalization: $172.33BJust how do you buy a company which is worth more than you are?
Simples, you just borrow money based on your target's value / projected income. That's obviously a touch harder if you plan to wind up the target company (depending how far you're willing to lie) ...
The more Google fights Apple the more it seems to resemble it, the old staring into the abyss thing. To defeat these evil giants and their foul anti-competative ways, I shall become larger and more anti-competative - Muwhaha.
Simples, you just borrow money based on your target's value / projected income. That's obviously a touch harder if you plan to wind up the target company (depending how far you're willing to lie) ... The more Google fights Apple the more it seems to resemble it, the old staring into the abyss thing. To defeat these evil giants and their foul anti-competative ways, I shall become larger and more anti-competative - Muwhaha.
System builders/Windows users tend to look at Apple's system architecture as anti-competitive, but that's not necessarily that accurate. Not allowing Google to produce certain apps certainly is anticompetitive, but Apple has stopped Google from producing apps, there are some on the App Store right now, but we don't know what their reasoning is for stopping certain apps that Google has tried to publish.
Google just hit below the belt. I hope Apple counters well. A good tech rivalry is better then baseball!