Everybody’s favorite tech company, Google, has just recently launched (and pulled out) the very much rumored GMail app for iOS. It’s a hurray, and then a half!

A lot of our Android friends (including me) have already enjoyed using the GMail native app, and we all loved its simplicity, less distractions, full labels support, and, of course, local searching. With iOS now being blessed by good ol’ Goog with a new mail app, I wonder what other apps they still have in store for the Apple platform…

Below are screenshots from GMail’s blog:

iPhone Screenies

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GMail Message Menu. Notice the "Report Spam" and "Mute" choices.

Labels show up when screen is swiped to the right

iPad Screenshots

iPad Screenshot with Thread View

Real awesome stuff since you get to have full features of GMail in a native speedy way. As exciting as it may seem, Google unfortunately pulled the app from the App Store due to “a bug which broke notifications and caused users to see an error message when first opening the app.” 

I would love to have a clean and speedy (also, free) version of Google Reader inside my iPad, so it could compete head on with Reeder, sort of the top-selling Google Reader client for iOS. If they could do it the Flipboard way, the better.