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I'm a happy and heavy user of Inbox, this came as a shock to me. I guess I'll wait and see by January how is Gmail, but I'm not looking forward. > By retiring
by fernandopj 8y ago
I'm a happy and heavy user of Inbox, this came as a shock to me. I guess I'll wait and see by January how is Gmail, but I'm not looking forward.
> By retiring Inbox, is Google losing a valuable ability to experiment with new email functionality in a way that’s tough to do with a billion-user mainstay?
I also agree with this. If Google decided to let Inbox go, same way as with Wave, then the next "email UX experiment" will be another codename. Why not use the existing Inbox product to do the next innovation? Its base is formed by users which already showed adoption to new ideas and UI.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Why not use the existing Inbox product to do the next innovation? Because the next innovation may be a completely different direction. I much prefer Inbox to Gmail, but I'd be a lot less happy for the Inbox name to be kept but the actual app to replaced by some completely new vision. > Its base is formed by users which already showed adoption to new ideas and UI. I bought into Inbox’s specific vision, not the generic idea of novelty. If Inbox didn't work out for Google, I'm disappointed, but I'd rather they kill it openly than that I get force fed some new unrelated novelty approach because I was using Inbox and must therefore be into whatever.
- mawburn 8y agoI really hated Inbox. I thought it was one of the worst ideas they had come up with in years. But, after seeing the amount of support that it has in this thread, I'm sad it's going just for the thing you mentioned. They could have kept this as an experimental ground to give the rest of the users good features that weren't so disruptive to what we are used to.