One of the biggest reasons that many consumers have shown such strong preference for the iphone is its ability to help them perform a variety of daily tasks without near as much hassle as before and checking their email was one of these. A very popular app known as reMail was until recently quite a well respected app because it allowed users to scan through their email in boxes to find important emails and offered a full suite of search functionality to help make the process much faster than it ever had been before. Then, the app was bought by Google in what many believed to be some sort of conspiracy against the Apple device’s user base to convert them over to Android users. These thoughts were further strengthened by the fact that Google immediately removed reMail from the App Store and left users wondering what had happened.
Then, developer Gabor Csell made the announcement that reMail was actually being released as an open source project on Google Code, a prominent source code release site on the web. The code will be released under Apache License 2.0 and developers are encouraged to use reMail as a building block for their email apps, according to what Csell has told the media. The move that frightened many users who were worried they would miss the app has actually ended up brightening the email search crowd and was apparently a maneuver designed to get Csell re-involved in Google after he left during the Gmail development days.