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Inbox by Gmail: now in more places
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#12It still strikes me how Google Apps users, who actually pay for GMail & Co., are always the last ones to get the new stuff.
This is a source of frustration for me. I like the idea of Google Now, but as an Apps user, it is almost worthless as you cannot use Gmail cards. Gmail cards are the source of interesting things like flight status, package tracking, etc. Even more, I routinely have issues where upcoming appointments don't show up although I do not know if that is caused by being an Apps user.
I truly don't get the delay on both Inbox and Now - are the backend Gmail systems completely different? If it's just a worry that "enterprise won't like it," why not allow it to be turned on/off from the Admin console like so many other things?
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#13It still strikes me how Google Apps users, who actually pay for GMail & Co., are always the last ones to get the new stuff.
Isn't there a checkbox in the Apps admin to opt in to get features earlier?
Yes, however that is just getting Google App features earlier. So if a product isn't in the GApps pipeline you won't get it, opt in or not.
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> every other non-gmail google product which has done invitations has died
Ingress haven't died yet.
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Gmail was invite only at the start.
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I didn't have an issue with it because you could (and still can) email inbox@google.com and automatically get one.
If a software company wants to test a new product with a subsection of its users, freely available invitations are the fairest way because the users most interested in the product seek out the invitations. The alternative is to rollout by IP address or some other system that shuts out willing participants.
Perhaps a better system would be more like Blizzard's, which has you opt-in to all betas in your profile, then does a lottery among those users, but Blizzard uses its betas as marketing differently than Google and the products have completely different business models.
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#17I still prefer Priority Inbox that's been around a few years now. I gave Inbox a shot, and it's very pretty, but I ultimately didn't find it as useful. Maybe I need to find the right settings to get Inbox to work the way I want, but... I'd be just as happy to not do that and stick with Priority Inbox.
What I like about Priority Inbox is that it shows me important emails, regardless of the type ("type" meaning the different categories that Inbox has). I.e., I don't generally care about "Promos" or "Updates," but there are a select few within them that I do care about. Priority Inbox figures that out, and promotes those particular ones. Inbox just groups them all together, so to see the one "Update" that I care about, I'd have to sift through that whole category to see it.
Gmail occasionally tries to convince me to switch to Inbox. I hope it's not the case that we'll all eventually be forced to switch...
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Domains was invite and hasn't died.
I don't think this is necessarily arbitrary. It's quite possible they estimated "Our servers can take N users right now and we'd rather do features than scaling while in a 'beta'". They might just need to scale-test before opening it up, and invites allow them to get user feedback without risking ungated floods which crash it all
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Arbitrary hoops? All you have to do is request an invite. A couple days later I had the invite. I'm sure they are just limiting how many total user they have until it gets out of testing.