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Extending messages of the native iOS Mail Client with interactivity and dynamic updates

We recently launched LinkedIn Intro — a new product that shows you LinkedIn profiles, right inside the native iPhone mail client. That’s right: we have extended Apple’s built-in iOS Mail app, a feat that many people consider to be impossible. This post is a short summary of how Intro works, and some of the ways we bent technology to our will.

LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS

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