New APIs are making it easier for companies to transform your inbox from an ordinary list of messages to a rich desktop of apps that act on the fertile information in your email. These apps make your life easier by letting your inbox do more. For the most part, these apps take advantage of the biggest trend in email innovation today: Gmail. Gmail is already eating into Outlook’s dominance as the number one mail client in the world. But Facebook might also join the fray, and we all know they can develop an app ecosystem. Either way, app developers win, and you win.
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