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Could that just mean 1 million people installed it 10 times?
Maybe but I still think there's more than that. There's 400,000 reviews, so even if they're counting people that install it multiple times it's probably not a 10:1 ratio. Also I think "10 million+" on the play store means 10,000,000 - 50,000,000, and that doesn't count iOS and web users.
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what's wrong with leaving emails unread?
For me, it’s because I can’t stand having meaningless ‘5,423’ badges littering the icons on my home screen.
Freudian slip: I accidentally wrote "the time spent in the ad" on the first try. :)
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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…
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Oh no, pinning! I've so thoroughly integrated that into my expectations and behavior that I didn't even think about it.
I don't use Inbox -- what does pinning accomplish?
The central idea of Inbox is that your goal is INBOX ZERO, and that after dealing with any email, you swipe it to the side (or mark it as Done with the checkmark in the web UI) and _do not see it again_. (Like 'Archive' in Gmail.)
The second idea is that your emails are Bundled by category. This is similar to a tag or a filter, but you can choose to have them still show (as a bundle) in the inbox, rather than being filtered to not-seen oblivion. For example, I had one bundle for Pull Requests, another for Jira notifications. The app auto-categorizers things for Finances, Promos, etc, so many of the spam-like newsletters you get will end up bundled together. (Bundles default to only showing things that are not Done, unless you click a bundle's category on the left navigation bar.)
That doesn't sound very useful. What makes it useful is that you can archive/Done an entire category. All of those emails from TeeFury, Newegg, Amazon, Steam, Github, etc that you would normally consider usually-clutter suddenly are SUPER easy to deal with. It basically makes archiving those no longer annoying, as you can do it all at once. Best of all, you see them first, so it's harder to have something get filtered without being noticed.
Pinning prevents you from archiving an item (unless you explicitly click it). This means that you can ping something in a bundle, archive the bundle, and it will archive all the other things, and leave the bundle with that one item visible.
I am profoundly saddened that Inbox is going away. As others have said, it _changed my life_ in terms of how I dealt with overwhelming email volumes at work.
I don't mean to throw out the same old "you can't get attached to Google products because they kill them at any time" thing, but holy shit, this one feels like a real kick in the balls. Email is one of my most important workflows and I've spent a great deal of time over the past few years attaching myself to the zero inbox mindset through the bundles feature and having my reminders as first class citizens in the inbo…
I felt like Inbox was the product that I was supposed to get on board with. It really is true that you just can't love google products. They make it freaking impossible.
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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.
Try Google Trips
* I use Inbox most of the time, until... * I need to create a filter, and I switch to gmail to do it. * Then I continue using gmail because I forget to change back to Inbox...
These are really unfortunate news! :( My stress level just went up after opening gmail.com after few years since I switched to Inbox. Being used to just swiping emails that I didn't need to attend, I didn't realize they were still in "unread" status. Now when I opened Gmail, I see: Social 190 Updates 4,856 Forums 3,329 Promotions 4,214 The worst part is that I cannot see which of those "Unread" emails are pinned in I…
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> 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…
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