Google is discontinuing Inbox
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Google is discontinuing Inbox
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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#2Everyone suspected it for a while. Their active Twitter account refused for months to say when the app would be updated for the iPhone X.
Personally, I suspect that they painted themselves into a bit of a corner with the tech stack they choose for Inbox. They used a unique C++ to JS compiler to run Inbox in the browser. This worked decently well in Chrome, but the experience in other browsers has been a lot choppier. It's possible the same codebase was also compiled to iOS and this is what caused the very long delay in updating for the iPhone X.
I'm sad to see it go. The UX in the official Gmail app isn't quite as good. The bundle workflow they developed for working through your inbox is something I haven't seen elsewhere.
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#3Google's ADHD with products strikes again. It's really hard to get excited over new Google offerings because they just go away when Google gets bored of them, time and time again.
Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox
#4Everyone suspected it for a while. Their active Twitter account refused for months to say when the app would be updated for the iPhone X. Personally, I suspect that they painted themselves into a bit of a corner with the tech stack they choose for Inbox. They used a unique C++ to JS compiler to run Inbox in the browser. This worked decently well in Chrome, but the experience in other browsers has been a lot choppier.…
When you have a successful product people love, you don't sunset it because the tech stack is too cumbersome.
This has to mean that the product wasn't seeing the adoption they were hoping for.
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#5Not trying to be facetious or anything, but honestly I wonder why at this point anybody would bother using any Google product besides the triumvirate of Search/Maps/Gmail.
What's the point?
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#6Finally, they are following through with their own app store policy of banning apps with “repetitive content”[1].
1. https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy-print...
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#8Okay, what can I download for iPhone to replace this? It was truly a beautiful UX. I loved it every single day I used it.
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#9Not trying to be facetious or anything, but honestly I wonder why at this point anybody would bother using any Google product besides the triumvirate of Search/Maps/Gmail. What's the point?
Calendar is the only thing I've found that integrates really well with absolutely everything
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#10Not trying to be facetious or anything, but honestly I wonder why at this point anybody would bother using any Google product besides the triumvirate of Search/Maps/Gmail. What's the point?
Uh, most useful features of Inbox have made it into GMail at this point.
(I was an exclusively-inbox user for quite a while)
I'm happy just using gmail now that the features are there.
I tried some of the extra bundling features and just didn't find them that useful. It was kind of nice but not so nice that i really miss it.