The venerable email service’s iOS and Android versions get their most thorough makeover of the Marissa Mayer era.
During Marissa Mayer’s time as CEO of Yahoo, mobile apps have been one of the company’s top priorities. The ones that have gotten the most attention, such as Yahoo Weather and Yahoo News Digest, have been nicely done. But by catering to fairly specific niches, they’ve had limited impact. If Yahoo wanted to impress people at a larger scale, it would need to build something ambitious with the potential to reach truly vast numbers of people.
