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Re: Google Inbox

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Post by tsunamifury »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #185
inoop wrote: post #17

I'm not sure what this 'inbox' does, but from judging from the video it's about a bunch of twenty-something hipsters from California high-fiving each other.

You could sum up the post dot-com startup craze with "a bunch of twenty-something hipsters from California high-fiving each other". Nothing more than an unparalleled amount of resources thrown at solving first world problems that millenials have.

Your absolutely right. The last 14 years of iPhones, Google Search, Gmail, Maps, Facebook, Social Networking, the very site you are using right now... can all be summed up by "a bunch of twenty-something hipsters from California high-fiving each other."

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by gmcabrita »

nazca wrote: post #88

If you are using Google Apps Free edition, you're good to go. If you pay for Google Apps, you get shafted. Nice.

I have the old Google Apps Free edition and I apparently can't use Inbox, so there you go.

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Post by cpncrunch »

serverholic wrote: post #102
Rezo wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't say I have a problem with email as it is today, but I am the exact opposite of you; I never archive or organize any of my email (besides rules for labeling email lists and groups so they directly bypass my inbox). I appear to have 11,600+ emails in my Gmail inbox. If I need something, I just search for it. As the Gmail search is really, really, good, I can pretty much instantly bring up any thread. I there…

Yeah I don't get the point of inbox zero either. I don't see any functional improvement so really it's just wasting time so you can pat yourself on the back.

Actually, I see inbox zero (or near zero - I try to keep it under 10) as a time saver. It means I can instantly look at my inbox and see what items I need to work on.

If you just keep everything in your inbox, it means you need to click on a button to sort by starred emails. Also you need to star any emails you need to work on. Most of my emails take a while to respond to - I like to think about them for a while before responding. With your method I wouldn't be able to do that - I have to either respond to all my emails after reading them, or else star all my emails as 'needing work' until I have time to respond.

Keeping only a few items in my inbox that I need to work on is the most efficient way of working, at least for me.

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Post by jerkywez »

I went to a google IO event when wave was the next best thing to email clients. Like many things, it died off because of adoption rates and bloated UI trying to achieve world domination. On the flip side i loved the talk like a pirate channel bot ;p Lets hope Inbox does not go down the same path..

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Post by Istof »

inoop wrote: post #17

I'm not sure what this 'inbox' does, but from judging from the video it's about a bunch of twenty-something hipsters from California high-fiving each other.

They make it "cloudy" on purpose since that's what it's all about according to them, the cloud.

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Post by abraham »

dagar wrote: post #207
dmayle wrote: post #95

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Disclaimer: Googler In what way do you think Now is broken with GApps accounts? I use Now with GApps, and don't know what you're referring to.

"Gmail cards are currently not available when using Google Now with a Google Apps account." https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2839480?hl=en

Not supported is not broken.

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Post by cromwellian »

jgon wrote: post #310
cromwellian wrote: post #282

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It doesn't use any Chrome specific features and it will work on FF, but it needs to be optimized to get buttery smooth 60fps animations. As you know, the logic for when the various browsers do layout, create layers, upload them to the GPU, etc is different, and that causes divergence rendering performance. It was hard enough to do this on Chrome, it just takes time. We also ran into a recent difference in the way spa…

What an incredibly disingenuous reply. Chrome is truly this decade's IE, and watching Google try to play this kind of crap off would be disappointing if it wasn't so insulting. "There's no intent to exclude Firefox", it just turns out you've done that for like 2 major product releases in a row along with a giant flashing button suggesting that the user downloads Chrome. I'm not stupid, you don't have to lie to my fac…

I take offense to someone calling me a liar.

Try typing this into a JS Console: var xx = []; xx[30000000]=42; var yy = xx.slice(0);

It took almost a week to track down this problem where FF was taking 13 seconds to startup. We've spent a lot of time working on this and it is always in the cards to support this on all the other browsers. We've fixed tons of bugs and have gotten closer to it working the way it should, and people have spent countless hours staying very late at the office to try and finish a polished FF release before the deadline, and we just didn't make it in time. I spent the past 5 years of my time working on open web stuff.

Any insinuation that this is an attempt to sell Chrome over Firefox is just flat out wrong. This was a "mobile first" designed app, it's not designed to promote browsers of any stripe, it's designed to promote an experience for gmail users. If we really wanted to shit over a platform, why bother with iOS? Firefox has such a large user base, it can't be ignored, just like iOS can't.

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Post by jzelinskie »

kristofferR wrote: post #227
tmhedberg wrote: post #172

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It doesn't integrate multiple accounts into a single inbox, if that's what you mean. It works the same as Gmail in that respect.

That's a massive shame. Weird that Mailbox/Dropbox manages to do it with Gmail, but Google doesn't.

To my understanding, the future of "enterprise support" for Android is that you'll be able to install multiple copies of the same app and one will be personal and the other work.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by abraham »

higherpurpose wrote: post #182

They are building a new e-mail system - yet still nothing one end-to-end encryption? Oh sure, I know they want to build the End-to-End plugin for Gmail (the service they are trying to make obsolete), which they know only a few people will use. But this is an opportunity to start from scratch with end-to-end security by default.

Inbox changes nothing about how email works. It simply tries to make the UI/UX more useful. Gmail content is what powers Inbox.
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