Arthur Posted September 12, 2018 Posted September 12, 2018 Four years must be some kind of record?! Source: Google (via Fast Company) Back in 2014, the folks at Google responsible for Gmail did something unexpected: They introduced a new email app. On the back end, Inbox was the same thing as Gmail, and worked with your existing Gmail address. But as a user experience, as then senior VP Sundar Pichai explained in a blog post, Inbox was “designed to focus on what really matters.” It was conceived with mobile devices in mind and ditched a decade’s worth of Gmail cruft in favor of tools focused on email efficiency, such as the way it displayed attachments right in the inbox view and incorporated a built-in task manager. Over the subsequent years, Inbox been a proving ground for features—such as “Smart Reply”—which later made their way into Gmail, especially with the latter’s sweeping new upgrade. So much of Inbox has rubbed off on Gmail, in fact, that it shouldn’t come as a complete shock that Google has decided that Inbox has served its purpose. The company is announcing today that it’s decided to discontinue the app, which will fade away by the end of next March. Inbox by Gmail has been a great place to experiment with new ideas like snoozing emails to later, as well as try the latest AI-powered experiences like Smart Reply, Nudges and high-priority notifications to help you stay productive. Four years after launching Inbox in 2014, we've learned a lot about how to make email better—and we’ve taken popular Inbox experiences and added them into Gmail to help more than a billion people get more done with their emails everyday. As we look to the future, we want to take a more focused approach that will help us bring the best email experience to everyone. As a result, we’re planning to focus solely on Gmail and say goodbye to Inbox by Gmail at the end of March 2019. We introduced the new Gmail in April this year, incorporating many of the same features you’ve come to love about Inbox plus newer features like Smart Compose, which helps you draft emails faster. Read more about how these features in Gmail can help you manage your inbox better in this post. We know change is hard, so we’ve created a transition guide to help you switch from Inbox to the new Gmail with ease. All your conversations are already waiting for you in Gmail. See you there.
TechMonkey Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Why do we bother! When Inbox was launched I'm sure they way they phrased it, it was the Gmail interface that would be phased out. I jumped in and have been using it happily and now they say forget how you have been working for the last few years, go back to how you were doing it!
sparkeh Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Why do we bother! When Inbox was launched I'm sure they way they phrased it, it was the Gmail interface that would be phased out. I jumped in and have been using it happily and now they say forget how you have been working for the last few years, go back to how you were doing it! This is why I moved away from using Google's services. You get used to using something and it goes away.
hardtailstar Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Noooooooooo, I really like Inbox, hopefully the Gmail app will move towards being the same!
Andycat Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Noooooooooo, I really like Inbox, hopefully the Gmail app will move towards being the same! I've switched back, it's poor compared to Inbox :-(
hardtailstar Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 I've switched back, it's poor compared to Inbox :-( Yep just looked at it. Will hold onto Inbox until it goes
Arthur Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 Good, inbox was a pile of ..... The e-mail bundling feature was really useful for bulk deleting messages or grouping related message together. Gmail will get this feature at some point however... www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17848500/google-inbox-shut-down-sunset-snooze-email-march-2019 Google says that there are still a few features due to make the migration from Inbox, specifically the “bundles” that group similar emails together into a single block, like those related to a single trip. That’s coming to Gmail, but there’s no word yet on the timeline for it.
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