Cecil B. DeMille and the Google Android Gmail App

Cecil B. DeMille once filmed a pretty important battle scene ... or tried to. At completion he called to the cameraman “Did you get all that?”. The cameraman waved and shouted back, “Ready when you are, C.B.!

This was clearly the inspiration for the Google designers of the Android Gmail app. I click Send on an /important/ /time-critical/ message that would have gone immediately on the old Gmail web site, and the app dutifully closes... with not a hint of warning. When one hour later the recipient tells me /the message was not received/, I open the Gmail app... which pops up "Sending...".

The difference is of course that Cecil had three backup cameramen, whereas I trusted Google's /flagship mail app/ so didn't send the same message via three other Google products too... /i /i

Good **ing grief. It is not rocket science.