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Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by _wmd »

DEADBEEFC0FFEE wrote: post #339
_wmd wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I logged in for the first time to see what it was.. same deal here, have stopped adopting new Google products since 2013 (the Reader debacle naturally)

Lol, that's such a strange approach. Just adopt the new services, and if they disappear, use something else. What do we exist to persist these days and how long for?

I'm sorry you maintain such a low opinion of yourself, but just like my lifespan, my attention is finite and I consider it priceless. If I'm forced to burn energy on something it better be for my long-term benefit, because let's face it, either of us could be dead tomorrow, and let's not waste our last breath cursing the fact we spent our final day alive on a new e-mail client, or in servitude to some other bullshit tool.

Google have broken that trust on countless occasions, and as a consequence for half a decade they have been deprived of the opportunity to waste any more of my time. You should consider doing the same

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Post by Illniyar »

I think framing the conversation as a deprecation or discontinuation of a product is too generous towards Google. It makes it seem like the product has reached it's end of life.

This isn't a discontinuation, it's a failure. If invoice was a startup this would be an "our incredible journey" article after the company has been acquired and it's product destroyed.

Google has failed to monetize inbox.

Similarly it's not that we don't use google products because we fear they'll discontinue it, google has failed too many times - you don't bet on a company that fails so often.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by peeters »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #185

This is really unfortunate. Inbox's primary differentiator was never in any one individual feature like Snooze or Smart Reply. No, the real value of Inbox was that its design was built around a fundamentally different philosophy on what email is and how it should be managed. Gmail takes a traditional approach to email management. Messages come in, you read them, maybe organize them with labels, then archive them, del…

> Inbox on the other hand is very opinionated. It was designed around the idea that your inbox is a to-do list, and everything from the UI to features like pinning, snooze, and reminders is built around that assumption.

Yeah this is a massive gut punch for that reason. Inbox is how I organize my life right now. I reply to myself, snooze emails for a specific day, track bills, all through Inbox. Say what you will about becoming too dependent on technology, but Inbox was really the first tool I had where I felt I had TODOs figured out, so that I wouldn't miss doing important tasks. This scares me a lot. Hopefully gmail is configurable to pick up a lot of the slack.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by kartickv »

DannyBee wrote: post #13

It's really interesting to see the super-knee jerk reaction here when the article itself even says that most of the features made their way into gmail. (I was a heavy inbox user, and i am happy with the stuff that made it's way into gmail). Outside of some of the bundling features, i'm curious what actual difference people are complaining about here.

Reminders aren't in Gmail, are they? I don't like having to check two inboxes, multiple times a day. Do you know why Google didn't add reminders to Gmail?

You also seem to believe that more features are always better, but part of Inbox's charm was that it wasn't bloated like Gmail.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by fbonawiede »

collinmanderson wrote: post #305
verelo wrote: post #278

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In the hope there is a google employee reading this, i want to shout a big plus one here! The next time the chance to look at the latest Microsoft offering comes up, I’ll do it, using vanilla gmail is just so clunky compared to inbox and i don’t want to go back to it.

Yes. Thank you! Snoozing emails changed my life. The one thing I miss from Inbox is being able to see my Done/Archived emails in the order archived. (So I can see recently archived emails, even if they're old emails.) Swipe to snooze would also be nice.

Agree! I used Mailbox initially. Since gmail got snoozing in the new design all I’m missing in gmail is snoozing reminders.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by kkarakk »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #198
schintan wrote: post #195

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not a inbox user, but cannot something similar be done with gmail tabs ?

Maybe. Can you add custom search queries as tabs? Something like "in:label AND in:inbox" would probably be a reasonable substitute (though perhaps a bit more clunky).

that's the thing, after i switched to inbox from gmail i never had to touch that feature. sometimes i'd bump against my old labels/containers in gmail and wonder how i used to live like that. honestly this is depressing

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by kkarakk »

majewsky wrote: post #262
jfaat wrote: post #221

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For me, it’s because I can’t stand having meaningless ‘5,423’ badges littering the icons on my home screen.

We've been conditioned to have that reaction. (That's also why they're red.) Unread-badges are designed to make you open the app, thus increasing the amount of time spent in the app. Freudian slip: I accidentally wrote "the time spent in the ad" on the first try. :)

yeah but every service you sign up for now has newsletters/mailing lists and constantly sends you semi relevant spam with the occasional gem that you can't instantly consign to the rubbish bin. inbox was so simple for dealing with things like that

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by kkarakk »

jamesjyu wrote: post #209
__sr__ wrote: post #173

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I like the way Inbox handles certain kind emails differently —- e.g. it extracts relevant data from newsletters, tickets, receipts, order confirmations, package tracking emails etc. so they are available at a quick glance. A quick glance tells me that is not the case with Gmail — correct me if I am mistaken.

Ah yes, I don't think those features made it, but I never found that to be the killer feature anyway. Perhaps someone can remake those, now that Gmail has a proper marketplace for add-ons.

so now i have to pay for features that were previously bundled as part of the product...why exactly would i do that for a free email service?
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