You’d figure with all the Ph.D’s they have working at Google, they’d figure out a way to do push e-mail, calendaring, and contacts to the iPhone.  What was the last new big feature Google rolled out in Gmail?  IMAP?  A standard that’s been around for ages?

I can’t believe they’ve let Yahoo! take all the iPhone push e-mail glory for so long.  Where’s Google’s commitment to take the ‘world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful’ ?  There are over a million new iPhone 3Gs out there.  There are at least 6+ million first generation iPhones.  How close to Blackberry’s market penetration is Apple going to have to get before Google takes them seriously as a mobile platform?

I think it’s great that they’ve reformatted some of their pages to be iPhone compatible.  But, seriously, I think Gmail is so long overdue for new features, it’s almost a joke.  And don’t even get me started on Google Calendar and Google Apps.  How powerful of a service would it be to be able to say:

“OK, we, Google, are offering Google Apps for your domain, just as we always have.  But, we are now adding enterprise-level calendaring, e-mail, and contact management.  And, as a member of different Apps domains, you can have all your e-mail in one account.  You can see all your calendar events on one (or several) calendar layers.  You can push all your contacts, calendars, and e-mail to your Blackberry (maybe) or iPhone.  You can two-way sync with Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail.App, iCal, Address Book, Evolution, etc.”

That’s a Google world I hope to one day live in.