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Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Promotion Driven Development

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

#343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Promotion Driven Development

I wonder if I should collect a bunch of these... Off the top of my head, I've observed: - Resume Driven Development: wherein enterprise contractors and developers inject as many fad frameworks, architectures, and uncalled for features unnecessarily. - Vendor Driven Development: wherein the application architecture is tie to a cloud solutions billing model as much as possible. - Search Engine Driven Development: where…

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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For the first time ever, today I saw a message in Gmail that my email was snoozed. Is it possible they are just incorporating these features into Gmail? That it was like a safe sandbox for working this stuff out before making at least some of it standard?

Yes. Gmail got Smart Reply, snoozing. Bundles are coming soon, and Smart Compose built on Smart Reply.

> Bundles are coming soon

I'm quite relieved to hear that; do you have a source? It doesn't seem that you work at Google.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Side-note on Google's communication systems, I watch an email thread at work where it went: 1) Here are my questions 2) I've added responses below in BLUE 3) Additional feedback in GREEN 4) More responses in BROWN and it really made me miss Google Wave. Inline replies within long emails are not well handled.

Is that similar to the functionality provided by Twist from Doist? It's not email based but it seems to be a hybrid of Email and Slack. I've only messed with it a few times and never with Google Wave, but it sounds similar to what you're describing.

I'm not familiar with Twist but from a quick glance I don't see a similar function.

Wave let you post a reply in the middle of someone else's message, so that if you were presented with a whole list of questions you could answer each of them inline, and other people could tag on to those new conversation threads in place.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Same thing here !! I don't want to go back to gmail, now it looks like a complete mess compared to Inbox. Should I start writing a replacement client ? :///

> Should I start writing a replacement client ? :/ Please do.

Yes, pleeeease do. I can't even imagine what I'm going to do come next year March :(

Re: 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.

I wonder what scale would have been enough. According to the play store it has over 10 million installs

That's 1% of Gmail's 1 billion installs, again according to Play, to compare apples with apples.

That's as clear a sign as you can expect that users don't want Inbox, notwithstanding a noisy minority like us.

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