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Google product manager Chris Vander Way said the new product does not signal that Google is backing away from efforts to convince businesses to use its Web-based email, dubbed Gmail. “We look at this as a way to provide choice for users who like to do things the old, Outlook way,” said Vander Way.

I don’t know if it’s really an expectation, but if another job candidate returns an e-mail message eight hours later, and you get back immediately with a message that says ‘Sent from my iPhone,’ I think it has to be a check box in your favor.

When he has trouble sleeping, he reaches for his smartphone to read news or check e-mail.