Google grabs iPhone app – pulls it down

Remail was remarkable in a few ways. Remail figured out a way to compress emails and store them all on the iPhone. Having the email stored locally on the device allowed it's searches to be lightening fast. The iPhone's stock app connects to the server to search most of your inbox (assuming you, like Cselle have 30,000 emails hanging around). In fact, those 30,000 emails only took up 127mbs.

It seems Google's interest in quickly scanning email, not just Gmail is the endgame here. Google could be looking to one-up the iPhone by incorporating Remail into an Android app but that seems against the Google's value prop of everything in the cloud, everywhere. It will be interesting to see how Google uses Remail and if they'll use it as a weapon to compete with rival Apple.

The founder had one time worked at Google on Gmail before he was a co-founder in Outlook plug in Xobni. Here's Cselle on his Remail application.

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