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While you're not being "facetious" you're being "glib". Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation and now they are folding it back in

While you're not being "facetious" you're being "glib". Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation and now they are folding it back in. Besides you're making it sound like there was some huge cost involved in adopting or in abandoning Inbox, which there isn't.

coldtea 8y ago
>Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation What was "obvious" about it? Here's how Google introduced it: "Inbox by Gmail is a new app from the Gmail team. Inbox is an organized place to get things done and get back to what matters. Bundles keep emails organized." Do you see anything about it being an "experiment" to eventually throw away? Not to mention Gmail already had the Labs feature for experiments. In fact, what 2 Google representatives had said at the time was: ""We hope, in the long run, that most of our users will be on Inbox." (Alex Gawley) "We care deeply about Gmail and Gmail users, but in the long run, as we add more features to Inbox and respond to user feedback, we hope that everyone will want to use Inbox instead of Gmail. Ultimately, our users will decide." (Jason Cornwell, Inbox's lead designer)
- ulfw 8y ago
  I couldn't have said it better myself! They tried to sell it as the possible evolution of Gmail. Not some 'experiment' that would partially flow into the Gmail they asked us to abandon for Inbox in the first place.
- vntok 8y ago
  "Ultimately, our users will decide."
dang 8y ago
You've repeatedly created accounts with a propaganda agenda for Google. You've been doing it for years. We've banned you many times before, and I've banned this account. Doing this is a serious abuse of HN, regardless of the company you're promoting or what your motive is. Would you please stop? HN is for curious humans to exchange thoughts in community. It's hard to imagine anything that undermines curiosity or community worse than this. We frequently ask users not to accuse each other of astroturfing or shilling without evidence, but when we do find evidence—and there's a lot of it in this case—we come down hard pretty quickly.

coldtea 8y ago

>Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation What was "obvious" about it? Here's how Google introduced it: "Inbox by Gmail is a new app from the Gmail team. Inbox is an organized place to get things done and get back to what matters. Bundles keep emails organized." Do you see anything about it being an "experiment" to eventually throw away? Not to mention Gmail already had the Labs feature for experiments. In fact, what 2 Google representatives had said at the time was: ""We hope, in the long run, that most of our users will be on Inbox." (Alex Gawley) "We care deeply about Gmail and Gmail users, but in the long run, as we add more features to Inbox and respond to user feedback, we hope that everyone will want to use Inbox instead of Gmail. Ultimately, our users will decide." (Jason Cornwell, Inbox's lead designer)

ulfw 8y ago
I couldn't have said it better myself! They tried to sell it as the possible evolution of Gmail. Not some 'experiment' that would partially flow into the Gmail they asked us to abandon for Inbox in the first place.
vntok 8y ago
"Ultimately, our users will decide."

dang 8y ago

You've repeatedly created accounts with a propaganda agenda for Google. You've been doing it for years. We've banned you many times before, and I've banned this account. Doing this is a serious abuse of HN, regardless of the company you're promoting or what your motive is. Would you please stop? HN is for curious humans to exchange thoughts in community. It's hard to imagine anything that undermines curiosity or community worse than this. We frequently ask users not to accuse each other of astroturfing or shilling without evidence, but when we do find evidence—and there's a lot of it in this case—we come down hard pretty quickly.