Well, it was answered on [android-platform] not on discuss On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Urs Grob <[email protected]> wrote: > This was already answered: Why are EMail and GMail separate applications > > ------------------------------------- > The EMail application is open-source and talks POP3 and IMAP > The GMail application is Google-proprietary and uses Google-specific > protocols to talk to the servers. > > They also work very very differently internally, and a single email > client would be a really difficult thing to write. > > Finally, they were developped by different teams, on different timescales > ------------------------------------- > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Imran Ali <[email protected]> wrote: >> Cool question, I would like to know also, should have been more stream >> lined. >> Perhaps they decided to add email only after Gmail was implemented, as an >> after thought. By the way I can't get Hotmail to work with the email >> program. >> >> On 5 Feb 2009, 5:58 PM, "Mungbeans" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I'm curious as to why the decision was made to have two separate >> email clients (EMail and GMail) as opposed to a single unified email >> client with the ability to manage multiple accounts? >> >> Does anybody know or can speculate? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
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