> 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 hav

> 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 have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated. I like to think I understand the sentiment, but I think the reality is a bit more nuanced than that. Inbox and GMail in all likeliness are in the same product area (PA) and thus at some point in the chain they report to the same person. That being the case, if Inbox takes even 1/2 the time of this manager that GMail takes, then it's really not worth it because GMail easily has more than 10x the users. My guess is that they will try to take all the things people liked about Inbox and bring them to GMail over time. They probably want to shut down Inbox before that happens so they can use more engineering resources to make that transition more quickly and also so that the tech stack is simpler by not having to support two different products.