Ugh. I while back I switched all my gcal events which emailed me to reminders. Now I have to change them all back again.
Google is discontinuing Inbox
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It's likely not google get bored, but users didn't adapt product on large enough scale.
> users didn't adapt product on large enough scale Because users know it wont be a product that gets any updates and will be shutdown in 2 years.
Not to mention that it launched with a lot of missing features that existed in Gmail.
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#253OOPS
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#254Inbox 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…
funny how people see things differently
I thought it was complete crap.
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#255Why isn't Google more clear on the life expectancy of its products? Because it would hurt adoption numbers.
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#256This is pretty frustrating.
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#257Inbox 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…
I concur, I don't know how I would have managed without it these last 4 years. Done instead of archive just makes so much more sense and it's the simple UI that really stands out as the best feature. Tried the new gmail just now and it's just not as good unfortunately, so much clutter. I'll be sticking with Inbox until the last day. What a shame.
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It might be an old critic, but Google truly makes an effort to keep it current. They're simply an unreliable company.
> They're simply an unreliable company I don't think it's intentional, but it's a side-effect of Google's bonus structure[1]. There's more money to be made (by employees) if their team successfully launches a new product. Maintaining existing products isn't as profitable, in fact, launching and deprecating popular products as frequently as possible is the optimal scenario for maximizing bonuses. 1. From the informati…
Wow, when I hear about perverse incentives, I don't usually think about people spending their lives showing their clients a taste of a possible future until a high enough reward gets them to stop caring. Reward hacking for humans.
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While you're not being "facetious" you're being "glib". Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation and now they are folding it back in. Besides you're making it sound like there was some huge cost involved in adopting or in abandoning Inbox, which there isn't.
> Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation What was "obvious" about it? Here's how Google introduced it: "Inbox by Gmail is a new app from the Gmail team. Inbox is an organized place to get things done and get back to what matters. Bundles keep emails organized." Do you see anything about it being an "experiment" to eventually throw away? Not to mention Gmail already had the Labs feature fo…
"Ultimately, our users will decide."