Mailbox is a great gmail client that originally was available only for the iPhone but now is on the iPad too. As soon as the iPad version was released I adopted it and relegated the gmail app to a legacy Google folder. As I mentioned before I use gmail mainly for personal stuff and my work email is connected to iOS Mail (which despite only having had the new iOS 7 version for less than 24 hours looks much improved).
Chrome has been relegated to the google folder too. It has been replaced in the dock with Coast, a touch native browser from the opera folks. I can't recommend it highly enough - this is how touch based browsers should be designed. Since the iOS 7 release I have also promoted Safari out of the folder it has been languishing in and I intend to give the new version a try. It will have to be really good to displace Coast though.
I still use Flipboard, but not as frequently. For some reason as the app gets slicker and has more content I have become less enamoured of it although I find it difficult to pin down exactly why. Perhaps it is because I am using a feed reader called Longform which presents long articles in a nice readable format. More and more I realise how deeply unsatisfying reading very many short articles can be, albeit fulfilling a shallow need. Maybe my lessening use of Flipboard is a reaction to this.
In the next post (it won't be months!) I'll deal with some productivity apps and comment more on iOS 7.
