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Comment by reacharavindh | Hacker News Reader

Even the website is very Apple-esque. How long before they get acquired by Apple and the Mail app acquires this feature set?

That’s just to say it looks lovely!!! Cheers! I’ll give it a try.

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> How long before they get acquired by Apple

I mean, they're already taking 30% of their paycheck. That's about as "employed" as they want them to be, since they make $2.10/month for every active user on their service.

> and the Mail app acquires this feature set?

Wishful thinking. The Mail developers have dropped the ball for the past 5 years, I wouldn't expect them to start releasing a good client now.

"very Apple-esque" is one way to put it. It's a nearly direct clone of this page: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/

:-) I am okay if they they spend the time they saved building out a novel website instead on building those features they have listed. But, I still think this is a direct play to get noticed by Apple for a acquihire.

I think I'm not quite so charitable. To me there's a big difference between using some templates or UI libraries (e.g. Bootstrap or Tailwind UI) as they're intended to build a home page that isn't particularly novel, and shamelessly cloning the design of an existing home page. I'm a big fan of focusing on the product itself and treating the home page as "get the message across with as little design and engineering work as possible," but do the former rather than the latter.

A native looking webpage for a native looking app :-)

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