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Extra First Class World problems: Inbox is not optimized for iPhone X. Everytime I read this I cringe. How about the thought that your phone broke common UI be

Extra First Class World problems: Inbox is not optimized for iPhone X. Everytime I read this I cringe. How about the thought that your phone broke common UI behaviour and not your software which needs to adapt to a new screen culture. I'm sure very soon Inbox will support iPhone X. But there are many other problems in Inbox which I see more important like Unspam emails without Gmail.

xoxoavi 9y ago
True that. But I hope that's not your only take away from the article :) Still they updated everything else - so I guess they didn't cringe at that. Apple breaking UI standards, yap, they always do, gotta write on that too.
- therealmarv 9y ago
  No that's not the my only take from the article ;) btw. I've read once in a German Blog that using on iPhone the app Outlook as a frontend for Inbox works really well. Never tried it myself but it seems this Frankenstein setup works better than expected.
saagarjha 9y ago
> How about the thought that your phone broke common UI behaviour Ok, sure… > and not your software which needs to adapt to a new screen culture. Why not? UI paradigms change all the time, and software usually keeps up if it wants to stay relevant. How is this different?
nukeop 9y ago
iPhone X is the special needs kid that everyone is tired of.
matwood 9y ago
> Inbox is not optimized for iPhone X. This has led me to think Inbox is on its way out. Lack of updates is the classic Google move prior to killing a product.
- spookthesunset 9y ago
  > This has led me to think Inbox is on its way out. Any time an app takes forever to update to a new apple screen resolution is a good indicator the app is on its way out. I mean, think about it.... if you were all-in on your app, wouldn't the highest priority fixes on your backlog be "get the damn thing to run in the native resolution of your target device"?

xoxoavi 9y ago

True that. But I hope that's not your only take away from the article :) Still they updated everything else - so I guess they didn't cringe at that. Apple breaking UI standards, yap, they always do, gotta write on that too.

therealmarv 9y ago
No that's not the my only take from the article ;) btw. I've read once in a German Blog that using on iPhone the app Outlook as a frontend for Inbox works really well. Never tried it myself but it seems this Frankenstein setup works better than expected.

saagarjha 9y ago

> How about the thought that your phone broke common UI behaviour Ok, sure… > and not your software which needs to adapt to a new screen culture. Why not? UI paradigms change all the time, and software usually keeps up if it wants to stay relevant. How is this different?

nukeop 9y ago

iPhone X is the special needs kid that everyone is tired of.

matwood 9y ago

> Inbox is not optimized for iPhone X. This has led me to think Inbox is on its way out. Lack of updates is the classic Google move prior to killing a product.

spookthesunset 9y ago
> This has led me to think Inbox is on its way out. Any time an app takes forever to update to a new apple screen resolution is a good indicator the app is on its way out. I mean, think about it.... if you were all-in on your app, wouldn't the highest priority fixes on your backlog be "get the damn thing to run in the native resolution of your target device"?