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Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by TheSoftwareGuy »

deegles wrote: post #263
sangnoir wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They're simply an unreliable company I don't think it's intentional, but it's a side-effect of Google's bonus structure[1]. There's more money to be made (by employees) if their team successfully launches a new product. Maintaining existing products isn't as profitable, in fact, launching and deprecating popular products as frequently as possible is the optimal scenario for maximizing bonuses. 1. From the informati…

Promotion Driven Development

I mean that's kinda how most industries work, just replace the word "development" with whatever that industry does

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Post by dag11 »

hbcondo714 wrote: post #229
strunz wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No they aren't. No automatic bundling of trips and purchases, no reminders (what happens to Inbox reminders?), and the UI is not as uncluttered and simple.

Looks like they transitioned it to a dedicated Tasks app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-tasks-get-things-done...

But, like all of their tasks in the past, those Tasks are in an entirely separate database. So as I see it, there are currently three Google taskesque databases:

- Classic Calendar tasks

- Reminders (Calendar, Inbox, Assistant)

- Tasks (Sidebar in Gmail, Calendar, and Docs)

Correct me if I'm wrong? They merge and create new task databases all the time it seems, so it's hard to keep straight.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by bogomipz »

>"...as then senior VP Sundar Pichai explained in a blog post, Inbox was “designed to focus on what really matters.”"

So does "what really" mattered then no longer matter now? Certainly email hasn't fundamentally changed since then.

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Post by sixothree »

tdfx wrote: post #157

I don't mean to throw out the same old "you can't get attached to Google products because they kill them at any time" thing, but holy shit, this one feels like a real kick in the balls. Email is one of my most important workflows and I've spent a great deal of time over the past few years attaching myself to the zero inbox mindset through the bundles feature and having my reminders as first class citizens in the inbo…

I guess it wasn't harvesting any unique information about its users. Thus... shutdown.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by sixothree »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #211

I think this choice may be partially inspired by the fact that lots of people never switched to Inbox and people like myself actually switched back at some point. For me pinning UX kind of sucked and I really missed the Gmail density of information. What's sad is that Inbox stopped evolving almost immediately after they released it. This seems to be a thing at Google. Release something, hype it, and then just walk aw…

I was actually never able to switch. I did receive my invitation email, but the link never did work. I requested another one and the link never did work. Wait 6 months rinse repeat. My accounts are broken at google or something. That would explain the notifications I get for other users....

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Post by archon810 »

noja wrote: post #117
klandergren wrote: post #110

Inbox changed my relationship with email and it is unbelievably frustrating to hear it is being shuttered. I was a better digital person because of the app: I never forgot to reply, I kept years of ideas and small notes in reminders, and I could quickly triage and clear all incoming mail. These things in particular made Inbox stand out: * UI - simple, uncluttered mobile and desktop experience with uncomplicated keybo…

Trips was the killer feature. I hope they port it. The ability to collect all my related information (a particular trip for example) into a single view was genius.

Why not just use a label for a trip and then delete it later (or keep)?

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Post by kemitche »

archon810 wrote: post #298
noja wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trips was the killer feature. I hope they port it. The ability to collect all my related information (a particular trip for example) into a single view was genius.

Why not just use a label for a trip and then delete it later (or keep)?

Why do that when Inbox did it automatically for me with no effort on my part?

It's not that I can't organize things myself, it's that it is nice when Inbox does it for me.

Re: Google is discontinuing Inbox

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Post by riku_iki »

394549 wrote: post #272
riku_iki wrote: post #78

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It's likely not google get bored, but users didn't adapt product on large enough scale.

> It's likely not google get bored, but users didn't adapt product on large enough scale. What exactly is a "large enough scale"? The mentality that a project is a failure unless it achieves exponential growth and massive world-eating scale needs to die in a fire. Even small things have value, and one of the few good things about massive corporations is they have the resources to do a lot small things well. When you…

> When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated.

probably less than half of them are engineers, and about 20% of them are capable to build complex systems. And now Google has quite long list of technologically complex products: search, ads, youtube, android. I think density of complex projects per capita may be much higher at Google than in other companies.

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