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by kylesethgray 4795 days ago
Gmail works perfectly fine on iOS.

and for Chrome, you can use Xmarks to sync bookmarks. I use both Safari and Chrome on the desktop, and the bookmarks are in sync completely, which makes them in sync with my iPad.

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It doesn't work perfectly fine because it has no sync. iOS apps cannot do background tasks. I receive a new mail, I read half the mail in my notification, but when I tap the notification, I have to wait 10 seconds for the mail to be downloaded. For someone who switched from Android, it makes me feel like I went back in time to to Windows 95 and Outlook Express.

So, no. I disagree. Gmail (at least the app) works horrible on iOS. Likewise, Google Maps and most other Google services are worse on iOS, while with Android everything just works after logging into Google.