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Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by pennaMan »

nathancahill wrote: post #2

Everyone suspected it for a while. Their active Twitter account refused for months to say when the app would be updated for the iPhone X. Personally, I suspect that they painted themselves into a bit of a corner with the tech stack they choose for Inbox. They used a unique C++ to JS compiler to run Inbox in the browser. This worked decently well in Chrome, but the experience in other browsers has been a lot choppier.…

>They used a unique C++ to JS compiler to run Inbox in the browser

I would love to read some reasoning behind that. I'm really trying to come up with pro arguments but can't.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by haggy »

munificent wrote: post #59
fra wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you have a successful product people love, you don't sunset it because the tech stack is too cumbersome. This has to mean that the product wasn't seeing the adoption they were hoping for.

Love don't pay the bills. If the product isn't helping the bottom line, companies will sunset it. "Free beer" would be the most widely adopted offering a bar could have, but it's not going to be good business for the bar.

> love don't pay the bills

Thats not always true especially with Google. Anything that helps tighten the already tight grip they have on users directly affects the bottom line.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by advisedwang »

ohadron wrote: post #70

This is so bad for my productivity. I will be missing: - Reminders (with the ability to snooze them) - Inbox bundling for promo, social, trips etc. - Pinning and archiving everything that is not pinned - Android 'Add reminder' widget Any ideas on how to replace these are welcome

some ideas

- regular gmail now has snooze too

- reminders can be set in google cal (at least on mobile) and in assistant and from search box

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by sauwan »

ohadron wrote: post #70

This is so bad for my productivity. I will be missing: - Reminders (with the ability to snooze them) - Inbox bundling for promo, social, trips etc. - Pinning and archiving everything that is not pinned - Android 'Add reminder' widget Any ideas on how to replace these are welcome

I agree. I'll gladly pay for a new email service that has these features. Been looking for a good reason to get off google's email (for security reasons), and this looks like a great kick in the butt to do so.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by sdoering »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #33
wnevets wrote: post #11

If you had to do with tons of email Inbox seem like it would be great. However it just got in the way when you only had to deal a few emails a day.

I went from 10000+ unread emails to inbox-zero. I honestly don’t think I could have taken the leap without Inbox. True, I don’t need the bundling feature as much any more, but I’m sad the product is going away.

Exactly that. I really digged the different philosophy Inbox brought to the table. You had "Inbox Zero" by creating a Task List out of your inbox. It was practically a todo list made up of emails. With scheduling, reminders, pinning and stuff. And automatically sorting into bundles like social, purchases or trips. Man I will miss the automatic bundling of all my trip related mails.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by noja »

klandergren wrote: post #110

Inbox changed my relationship with email and it is unbelievably frustrating to hear it is being shuttered. I was a better digital person because of the app: I never forgot to reply, I kept years of ideas and small notes in reminders, and I could quickly triage and clear all incoming mail. These things in particular made Inbox stand out: * UI - simple, uncluttered mobile and desktop experience with uncomplicated keybo…

Trips was the killer feature. I hope they port it. The ability to collect all my related information (a particular trip for example) into a single view was genius.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by noja »

ramy_d wrote: post #71
andybak wrote: post #64

> Outside of some of the bundling features Bundling (in the inbox) is THE reason for using Inbox. It's the only unique feature. It's the thing that changed how I use email. If I use folders it's the kiss of death for any email that a rule sends to that folder. I want a single list but with some items collapsed. Email went from unthreaded to threaded (reducing the complexity massively. Bundles takes that one step furt…

and pinning!

Pinning was basically starring with a ui toggle, right?

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by __sr__ »

Wow! I haven’t used regular Gmail in years! It will be a pain to switch back. The whole bundling, scheduling, snoozing, pinning, reminders etc are really useful.

But then it’s Google. The key people probably got bored and moved on and perhaps no one else is willing to take it up. At least they didn’t make 10 different email products like they did with IM.

Any suggestions for alternative email clients for iOS/Android (other than Gmail app) which works well with Gmail? The iOS client doesn’t work well with Gmail. I’m looking for something which has as many as possible features from Inbox and doesn’t mess up my inbox — i.e. no Mail Pilot.

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