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In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

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Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

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This is puzzling, as Google pushed Inbox pretty hard. I was under the impression that the Gmail interface would be decommissioned, and Inbox would be the future.

They took a lot of the features from Inbox and added them to GMail, so I think it (kind of) is.

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

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I use and like inbox, mostly because I took straight away to using the snooze function - the best thing I've found in an email client, full stop. While this can apparently be done in Gmail now, I'd like to look for an alternative at this point - paid - to move from Google.

Any suggestions for an email client that has decent android support, and offers a snooze function?

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

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post #22

The death of reader wasn't as bad as this for me. Soon after reader died, alternatives popped up left and right, and some of them are better than reader ever was. What alternative is there to gmail/inbox? Unlike an RSS reader, I think it's much more difficult to make an email service that's close to being as good as gmail/inbox while having the same level of features, especially across platforms.

Sure, alternatives popped up, but wit the friction of finding something free and reliable, in my case at least, it resulted in abandoning my rss sources.

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

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post #17

The new look Gmail has performed very poorly for me. Hanging for extended periods while changing views, and during search. I'm not sure why a UI refresh would have such an effect but I've been avoiding switching because of this

I hate their “new” tabs that tries to categorize emails. It’s just extra clicks to get to the emails I want. It’s forced me to go back to a dedicated email app.

What are you talking about man? You can easily turn it off in "configure inbox" section.

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

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post #14

I'll miss reminders the most because I use my mail client as my ToDo lost as well. I switched to Gmail preemptively and I'm back to writing emails to myself again...

I’m pretty sure the new Gmail has a todo list built into it called Tasks. Could be only with Gsuite though.

Yep notes and tasks are part of Gmail's new look (hiding on the right navbar).

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

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post #14

I'll miss reminders the most because I use my mail client as my ToDo lost as well. I switched to Gmail preemptively and I'm back to writing emails to myself again...

I’m pretty sure the new Gmail has a todo list built into it called Tasks. Could be only with Gsuite though.

It does, but it’s a separate list to the right of email. It’s easy to forget about it. The way Inbox made tasks no different than email was something special. Hit T, type the task out, enter, and it’s now impossible to ignore.

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

#37

This is puzzling, as Google pushed Inbox pretty hard. I was under the impression that the Gmail interface would be decommissioned, and Inbox would be the future.

If you've worked in large orgs it makes sense.

They had a strategic priority a while back to 'make mail good on mobile' ... whereas now they are folding it all back into the gmail umbrella because the overall strategic impetus would be to be gmail founded.

So, short term strategy now important with the longer term issues of product portfolio. Collapse the 'good bits' of inbox into Gmail and move forward.

You have to consider it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have two email products at the same time.

The real problem is the new Gmail is not very good.

It still blows my mind how companies with billions of dollars to burn get UI wrong. Like the first Windows 10.

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

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post #26

I use Inbox for all my mail. I'm fine with Inbox being EOL'ed because the migration is effortless and only relatively minor features remain in limbo. My least favorite thing about Inbox was the low-density UI. I want side-bars. I want to be able to have a high-density list view. Inbox never integrated my hangouts transcripts. I'm fine with going back to a much-evolved GMail.

Inbox has a couple of unique and valuable features that exists in no other clients. Sadly the ones I depend on the most.

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

#39

Google's shutdown of products and APIs seems to have led to critical level of trust loss amongst developers and influencers. It's time for Google to either fix this or get out of providing services and APIs to developers. Google doesn't seem to put any weight at all on the outcry every time its shutters another service/API. The trust must be restored. Google doesn't seem to understand that when they shut service X, t…

My company switched from AWS to Azure without considering Google's Cloud at all, and the loss of trust is the reason.

Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

#40
I never bothered with Inbox because I figured Google would cancel it some day. I understands user's disappointment, but it can't be a surprise. This is what Google does.

It's amazing to me that a company with close to 90 000 employees and that attracts top talent can't find a way to support their services longer than a few years. How much does a handfull of indian engineers and space in their own datacenter cost?

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