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Both Microsoft and Apple software quality has go down recently. What is going on. Is it the AI-produced code? It can't be that... I don't know how are things i

Both Microsoft and Apple software quality has go down recently. What is going on. Is it the AI-produced code? It can't be that... I don't know how are things in Google land; their apps and websites are just-OK; however GMail seems quite stagnant - yeah they slapped LLM on it, cool; but other than that... they added Chat? few years ago? But at least Google's stuff mostly works, even when it's boring.

IX-103 1y ago
There was a total revamp to GMail called "Inbox" that Google was working on for a while, but it got deprecated and cancelled before it was released. From what I heard, they were testing it internally and most people liked it. It just was more search focused so the backend costs were more than they thought they could bear and it was scrapped.
- baggachipz 1y ago
  I loved Inbox, it was way better at organizing than gmail. In true google fashion, as soon as people started to like it and use it, they unceremoniously killed it.
benrutter 1y ago
Interested, would you want gmail to do anything additional? Aside from a modernised look every now and then, I can't see that there's many additional features you might give an email client?
- fragmede 1y ago
  If you have the resources of Google available to you, I'd think something could be done to make email as a whole less bad. I get so many emails that inbox zero is NOT at all realistic. You could argue that's not Google's responsibility, and you'd be right, but it means I use Gmail less, which is at odds with me using it more and Google getting more of my attention.
zulban 1y ago
You say stagnant, I say stable.
- rkomorn 1y ago
  Agreed. I can't think of a single feature I personally think GMail is missing (and arguably some features I wish they hadn't added). I do think their settings panels, and their filter management in particular, could sorely use some UX improvements.

IX-103 1y ago

There was a total revamp to GMail called "Inbox" that Google was working on for a while, but it got deprecated and cancelled before it was released. From what I heard, they were testing it internally and most people liked it. It just was more search focused so the backend costs were more than they thought they could bear and it was scrapped.

baggachipz 1y ago
I loved Inbox, it was way better at organizing than gmail. In true google fashion, as soon as people started to like it and use it, they unceremoniously killed it.

benrutter 1y ago

Interested, would you want gmail to do anything additional? Aside from a modernised look every now and then, I can't see that there's many additional features you might give an email client?

fragmede 1y ago
If you have the resources of Google available to you, I'd think something could be done to make email as a whole less bad. I get so many emails that inbox zero is NOT at all realistic. You could argue that's not Google's responsibility, and you'd be right, but it means I use Gmail less, which is at odds with me using it more and Google getting more of my attention.

zulban 1y ago

You say stagnant, I say stable.

rkomorn 1y ago
Agreed. I can't think of a single feature I personally think GMail is missing (and arguably some features I wish they hadn't added). I do think their settings panels, and their filter management in particular, could sorely use some UX improvements.