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> And having seen Mailbox, it's very competitive with what is IMO the next-best mobile email client, GMail

But Mailbox only works with GMail email accounts. I wonder how many users Mailbox would have if Google shut them off.

I don't think Google can realistically do that, both from a tech and a PR standpoint.

or, of course, there also exists the rebuttal that, uhh, there's no reason mailbox can't work with things that aren't gmail.....

Except if, uhhh, they have made too many assumption on Gmail features being available, so that from the backend to the UI layer, it needs a good, over-through, rewrite to work with anything more standard.

Gmail has spent a lot of time making it work well with web mail clients, be fast etc. Other people have not done this much in general, they would probably have to buy someone.

I didn't think that Google could realistically drop CalDAV either until they did.

Not a reasonable comparison, IMO.

And the forthcoming Dropbox email API? (jk)

That actually makes a lot of sense.

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