Gmail App for iOS ⇥

To be honest, I’m not sure what this is beyond a push-notification-enabled version of the mobile site. One thing of note is the splitting of the main view to reveal the menu, a la Facebook, etc. It’s weird how much this looks like an Android app though, or like an app designed five years ago (there’s a floppy disk to represent saving a draft).

You’ll note that when you go to download the app, you’ll see a horrifically bad icon. Maybe they gave that job to an intern or something.

Edit: Peter Cohen raises a good point:

Wow, a Gmail app for my iPhone, how awesome. Next I’d like to see individual apps for every single RSS feed I read.

This is exactly like all those apps that embed an RSS feed and a WebView in an application wrapper.