Now I get to see what's stronger - my desire to try Mailbox or the fingernails-on-chalkboard irritation of an app on my phone that doesn't do anything.
Downloaded it, couldn't use it, wondered why a 3rd party needs push access servers for a mail client... became suspicious... deleted it... probably not reinstalling it.
If they didn't have push access and servers, how would they let you know when you had new mail? Third party iOS apps can't poll for new mail, so remote notifications are the only way!
+1. Push notification is the only way to notify about new emails. The trade-off is that you are gonna have to store user credentials on server. That's the reason why Sparrow didn't implement push notification.
Looks good. So you can store oauth on server, which should be safer. Is it possible for an oauth client to "suicide" on its permission? I'm thinking, in case a third-party service is comprised, they can just ask the oauth server to abandon their permission to avoid further loss for users.
Thats fine, when you get several hundred emails a day you don't want push notifications. If its important it shouldn't be going to me via email, I mean thats why I have a phone.
At it's current rate of fulfilling the queue, I can expect to be invited in about 30-50 days. Looks like a decent app, but no thanks. If this is a marketing ploy, it might backfire on them.
I'm really regretting not wanting to give my phone number to some random startup the first time I saw Mailbox. I did end up signing up a month or two later but now there are 250,000 people in front of me...
I gave them my number a while back but never heard anything. Now there are 250k people in front of me. I guess it doesn't matter too much since my gmail accounts aren't the ones I primarily use.
I registered around 1:35 PM EST and there was ~250,000 people ahead of me. Looks like a lot of traction. You are, of course, giving this company access to your Gmail, but perhaps that's a small price to pay?
I'm pretty anxious to try the app out, luckily I have a low number in the queue, but the first thing that happened when I opened the application was that it asked me to share it with friends... How can they expect me to endorse something that I am still waiting in line for?
Wonder how Apple approved this app. It doesn't do anything (I mean, anything) if you forgot about the "get in the line" moment. I'm sure once you get access to it maybe it's the coolest but still wonder how Apple approved the app with this type of hack built-in. 274,000+ people in front...I might eventually forget about this.
Looks good, though I'm not sure how I feel about this queue system. I understand that they're claiming its to make sure they can handle the numbers but I can't help but think it might also be a clever marketing ploy.
Kind of like how when no one could get on Google+ everyone wanted to be on Google+.
Not sure if you guys know, but Eddie Cue's son works at Orchestra. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple ends up buying this company. I think they should. Their Mail.app client feels so far behind compared to Mailbox.
From what I can see of Mailbox, it looks fantastic- but it's not for all users. It's adapting e-mail to a specific usage pattern that many of us will have, but few non-professionals would use. So I don't think it would replace Mail.app.
He probably deploys apps from Xcode to his device. Since his computer can't handle the iOS6-compatible Xcode, he has chosen to not update the device to iOS6.
I downloaded it from the UK store, but I had to download it through the link in this post, as the Apple search cache probably hasn't updated yet on the App Store.
A word of warning - if you have a reservation, make sure you don't accidentally click on the first button in the app by mistake. Once you do, there's no way to get back to the first screen to enter your reservation code, even if you uninstall and reinstall the app.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and was able to use my reservation code after I remember I had it. So was my friend! The button to use the code is kind of hard to see
I agree I was stupid to have forgotten that the code was not in email but in a text message (not finding anything in the email made me give up and get back into the reservation line). But it is pretty idiotic to not allow us to use our reservation code once we realize mistakes like that and find our codes. And now I have 2 pairs of reservation-private codes sitting idle in my text message inbox.