Mailbox for iPhone is the first email client built for our most personal computers

It’s highly unlikely that you, and maybe even your children, will be able to divorce yourselves from email. It’s too engrained into Internet culture and serves as a direct allegory for the ancient and waning but still mostly reliable Postal Service. But now, we’re moving away from using stationary desktops and laptops as our primary computers and towards more portable, personal devices. AS this happens, it’s well worth pondering whether the paradigms of email are meant to be translated directly over to these devices using the same methods and structures that we’re used to. Mobile devices like smartphones are as different from the desktop as they can be, they’re simply not the same kinds of computers. Shouldn’t we be looking for a solution for email that is as different and tailored for these devices as well? That’s the general principle that guided the Mailbox project. It’s an app that ostensibly joins the wide array of email ‘clients’ already available on the iPhone, but thinks about email in a significantly different way than many others that have come before it. <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/54553882" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>></iframe> The early stages of this could be seen in Sparrow for iOS, which focused on quick actions that you can perform while mobile tha