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? > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
