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>And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,( To be fair, Gmail has been my primary email since early 2009 and I'd never even heard of Inb

>And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,( To be fair, Gmail has been my primary email since early 2009 and I'd never even heard of Inbox until people on Leo Laporte's podcast started whining it was going away.

NegatioN 7y ago
How is that being fair? Does you not having heard about it define what is a great product, and what is not? Google Inbox was great. Intuitive, modern, snappy, a testbed for new features, and on the surface it seemed less monetized and ad-ridden than gmail. I switched away from Google's email-clients as soon as Inbox died, also having used Gmail since as soon as I got an invite when it was more closed than today.
- ryanmercer 7y ago
  >How is that being fair? Does you not having heard about it define what is a great product, and what is not? It's fair because MANY people had never heard of it. I even heard on those same Leo Laporte podcasts people going "what's inbox", people who report on tech for a living. I imagine, compared to people just using the gmail app or the web interface, it had terrible adoption rates which made it not worth supporting. From all I could gather is it was almost exclusively used by those in tech and then only by a small subset. I imagine reader had a small user base. RSS feeds are a pretty obscure thing and always were. The only hangouts messages I've ever received have been group spam and likely has a relatively small user base. Google Circles was largely spam and garbage content created for SEO in my experience and probably had a very small real user base. Etc etc. If you your user base is a small percentage, or a fraction of your percentage, of your overall user base it's perfectly fair to go "well, let's shelf that".
k__ 7y ago
I got some ad on Gmail for Android, back in the days and tried it for a week or so. Couldn't figure out how it was better than the stuff I already used and switched back to the regular Gmail client again.
roland35 7y ago
When Inbox first came out I did not like it at all, but once I got used to it I enjoyed it much more than stock Gmail. It was great mixing in reminders and snoozing emails. Gmail has kind of incorporated some of those features, but not as well.
abawany 7y ago
I am surprised to hear this because I OTOH thought Google's attempts to corral people into Inbox when it came out were obnoxious. The app notifications, the Play Store nudges, etc. I tried it since I got the impression from the nudges that maybe Gmail was going to get knifed; I hated it and went back to Gmail.
- coldpie 7y ago
  Yeah, that's how I found out about Inbox, and switched to it away from Gmail on my phone. Then they killed it and I'm back to Gmail. I learned my lesson and ignored the notifications begging me to try Duo instead of Hangouts. Now Duo is dead (hooray, I dodged a bullet) and I guess they're killing Hangouts for no reason.

NegatioN 7y ago

How is that being fair? Does you not having heard about it define what is a great product, and what is not? Google Inbox was great. Intuitive, modern, snappy, a testbed for new features, and on the surface it seemed less monetized and ad-ridden than gmail. I switched away from Google's email-clients as soon as Inbox died, also having used Gmail since as soon as I got an invite when it was more closed than today.

ryanmercer 7y ago
>How is that being fair? Does you not having heard about it define what is a great product, and what is not? It's fair because MANY people had never heard of it. I even heard on those same Leo Laporte podcasts people going "what's inbox", people who report on tech for a living. I imagine, compared to people just using the gmail app or the web interface, it had terrible adoption rates which made it not worth supporting. From all I could gather is it was almost exclusively used by those in tech and then only by a small subset. I imagine reader had a small user base. RSS feeds are a pretty obscure thing and always were. The only hangouts messages I've ever received have been group spam and likely has a relatively small user base. Google Circles was largely spam and garbage content created for SEO in my experience and probably had a very small real user base. Etc etc. If you your user base is a small percentage, or a fraction of your percentage, of your overall user base it's perfectly fair to go "well, let's shelf that".

k__ 7y ago

I got some ad on Gmail for Android, back in the days and tried it for a week or so. Couldn't figure out how it was better than the stuff I already used and switched back to the regular Gmail client again.

roland35 7y ago

When Inbox first came out I did not like it at all, but once I got used to it I enjoyed it much more than stock Gmail. It was great mixing in reminders and snoozing emails. Gmail has kind of incorporated some of those features, but not as well.

abawany 7y ago

I am surprised to hear this because I OTOH thought Google's attempts to corral people into Inbox when it came out were obnoxious. The app notifications, the Play Store nudges, etc. I tried it since I got the impression from the nudges that maybe Gmail was going to get knifed; I hated it and went back to Gmail.

coldpie 7y ago
Yeah, that's how I found out about Inbox, and switched to it away from Gmail on my phone. Then they killed it and I'm back to Gmail. I learned my lesson and ignored the notifications begging me to try Duo instead of Hangouts. Now Duo is dead (hooray, I dodged a bullet) and I guess they're killing Hangouts for no reason.