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Google discontinuing experimental email app Inbox
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They ain't gonna give up on Gmail (and Drive). They only give up on services that are somewhat redundant (and you gotta wonder why they have so many redundant products in the first place)
that would be nice... I hope they add that soon. If not I guess they think a simple/straightforward app is better than confusing functionality.
The rebranded Drive recently actually.
Inbox was doomed from the beginning. Also, their messengers apps are a mess.
They just changed the name of the app they didn't discontinue anything.
It's still called Drive... they just rebranded the paid storage options you can choose from to Google One.
Never said they did ;)
Drive, Photos, Mail are tier 1 products. It's their experimental stuff you need to watch out for. Inbox screamed experimental.
However, they may introduce Inbox features to the Gmail app. And they still haven't figured out messaging.
My theory is they want to encourage employees to come up with new ideas, but they never market those ideas, so the product never gets a ton of users and then gets shut down.
It's great for travel information and how it oraginzes flight information. Can Gmail do that by now? If not I'm sticking with this till they kill it.
You know, this time...I thought it would be different. I figured that Inbox would be safe, and that Google wouldn't drop something that was legitimately useful and awesome.
I won't fall for it again.
I won't fall for it again.
I feel like Google always does this, two apps for everything then one gets unsupported for a bit and then ultimately they get rid of it...
Bundles. Right now their support article is pushing users towards using categories/labels, which are useless.
I want to look at my inbox and see what's new at a glance, not check five different views to see if there's anything important.
There's no option to pin emails to the top of a list, only star them, which moves them into a separate category.
Swiping left or right on an email just deletes it instead of bringing up the snooze options.
No media previews in the inbox either.
They didn't solve this with the Inbox app either, but the Gmail app still doesn't support a unified inbox either.
This is precisely my issue going "all-in" to a Google infrastructure: Every time I have gotten myself used to a Google app, they always end up dropping support for it at some point.
So the entire world is supposed to get rid of their PC's, Android's and other non-iOS devices then?
I missed this on the last page:
I believe Microsoft's Outlook app does the same thing when you're using it with third-party accounts.
Doesn't Spark hand over all your emails to their servers for processing rather than doing it client-side?
I believe Microsoft's Outlook app does the same thing when you're using it with third-party accounts.
I prefer Inbox a million times over. I hope what they really mean is Inbox is becoming Gmail... :(
Figures. Inbox was the entire reason I migrated my primary POP-based custom email to it. Hate the gmail layout. I wonder if I should move to outlook.
They've been pushing Inbox on people for years now! Yes, Inbox on desktop was trash, but the mobile app is so good. I guess by giving up on desktop and just making regular Gmail slower is good enough? Ugh, what a mess.
I've been using Inbox for like 5 years or more now. Damn.
That said, there are definitely times where it fucks up showing me certain emails and I have to go to gmail to get to them promptly so it definitely had problems.
That said, there are definitely times where it fucks up showing me certain emails and I have to go to gmail to get to them promptly so it definitely had problems.
Inbox is technically Android and iOS only, though. It didn't have a PC/Mac client.
It has a web version that has all the features on any device you wish.
Any app that offers to-do features outside of your native email provider is doing server side handling
And I used Wavebox to get a discrete-app feel on my macOS devices.
Welp, spent the last 20 minutes setting up Mail.app with my two Gmail-based accounts on all of my devices. Wondering if this is when I finally leave Gmail completely.
Good old google, always killing their best stuff. I'm still bitter over Google Reader. I've been using Inbox since it was invite only, and I loved it throughout this time.
So, are there any good alternatives to Inbox? (including paid ones) There's no fucking way I'm going back to Gmail, it's like going back to the stone ages in terms of UX.
So, are there any good alternatives to Inbox? (including paid ones) There's no fucking way I'm going back to Gmail, it's like going back to the stone ages in terms of UX.
Will it still look and behave like Gmail? Yeah, I'll pass.
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I just switched back to Gmail, but I'll echo others here in requesting they incorporate some of the inbox features into Gmail.
Change the yellow flag to the blue pins, and instead of archive rename it to "Done". The pins and Done were much easier to understand and intuitive than what Gmail is doing, even if they're functionally identical. (Though I don't think flagging an email keeps it up at the top or anything.)
I'm good with Gmail regardless, but yeah, I guess I was part of their target audience with this experiment.
Change the yellow flag to the blue pins, and instead of archive rename it to "Done". The pins and Done were much easier to understand and intuitive than what Gmail is doing, even if they're functionally identical. (Though I don't think flagging an email keeps it up at the top or anything.)
I'm good with Gmail regardless, but yeah, I guess I was part of their target audience with this experiment.
When Mailbox was still around (RIP), I actually tried Inbox for a bit and while a bit rough around the edges, it seemed like a great potential successor once I heard Mailbox was kaput. I ended up using it for a while before switching to Outlook.
I tried it recently and was dismayed that it hasn't improved as much as I'd have liked. Still, I did like it over the default Gmail app.
I tried it recently and was dismayed that it hasn't improved as much as I'd have liked. Still, I did like it over the default Gmail app.
This sucks. I love Inbox and the reminders feature is essential. I'm really disappointed and surprised this is happening since I remember early on Google actively pushed me into using Inbox instead of the standard Gmail interface.
Time to find an alternative I guess because the standard Gmail app and the iOS mail app aren't going to cut it.
Time to find an alternative I guess because the standard Gmail app and the iOS mail app aren't going to cut it.
