Google's Dom Leca, founder of Sparrow, appears to be building an iOS app...
With all the breaking news in a day, it's easy to overlook a single Tweet. This one, however, stood out to me this morning. Dom Leca, founder and creator of Sparrow, which is still my favourite Gmail application for Mac and iOS, tweeted this earlier today:
I am looking for a talented iOS developer in Google Paris offices.Will work directly with me. Ping me at [email protected]
— dominique leca (@domleca) January 21, 2013
Yes, it appears that Mr. Leca is hard at work on... something for iOS. Could it be an update to Sparrow? I doubt Google would let him use company resources and talent for that. My bet - and hope - is on a new, completely revamped Gmail app for iOS. Gmail 2.0 is great, much better than the first version, but it's still lacking in UI polish and functionality. Gmail for iOS is still largely a web app, and would benefit greatly from a native UI rewrite. Should this be the case, I sincerely hope Mr. Leca is planning to bring some of Sparrow's intuitive and innovate UI to Gmail.
Hopefully we'll find out what he's working on before too long.
