Google Discontinuing 'Inbox by Gmail' in March 2019, Points Users Toward Gmail

One of the rare times when Google discontinues a product because they've absorbed the functionality elsewhere, rather than just discontinuing it and leaving the users out in the cold.

 

God damnit...

 

Didn’t like that app when it first came out. Went back to the Gmail app and never looked back. Guess the updates didn’t make it any better.

 

NO NO NO - the Inbox app makes everything som much "cleaner" than the gmail...right now everything in my Inbox that has to do with travel is automaticcally grouped under each trip ... I just opened gmail (which I havent used since the Inbox app came out - and now there is just a bundle of travel e-mails in one big mess

I am really dissapointed about this

 

Does the gmail app allow you to attach iCloud files yet?

 

As someone who doesn’t want to feel “stuck” in any one ecosystem and therefore looks for cross platform solutions, I have grown a bit wary about Google’s long history of starting a service that sounds great, but ends up needing work that never gets done but instead results in rolling all users over to something else entirely or leaving them stranded in an abandoned wasteland. Sometimes the new thing does turn out to be better, but it’s always confusing and disorienting to make the switchover. They’ve rolled over my Google Play music into something new and better, or so I’m told. But the fact of the matter is I’ve got too much going on and don’t really feel like figuring out the new shiney thing they’re pushing.

 

This is why I switched to iPhone. I’m tired of them starting stuff then dropping it. I have both on my phone but inbox was way better for my personal email because it seemed to sort better than gmail.

 

Never understood why... with a company as massive as Google... how it would really hurt them all that much to keep stuff like this running? Back when I was a Google Fan I got burned way too many times by this. Google Reader, Gears, Notebook, Wave, iGoogle, Google Code, ... I could go on and on. Now, I'd rather pay for a product that sticks around than have my personal data sold to use a free product that may not be around tomorrow. I value my privacy much more today. If you're not paying for the product... you are the product being sold.

I remember when Inbox came out. I liked it and wondered when gmail was going to be discontinued. lol.

 

I probably should have stuck with it. I don’t like the GMail app either.

 

I use Inbox to get notifications only for email in Primay - even though I don’t read or manage mail using Inbox - i stilll read/reply with Apple native app.

Is there any other app or setting to get notifications about emails in primary only?

 

Why don’t they merge Waze into Google Maps already with faster turn by turn and ability to run the app on top with notifications like Apple and Google Maps does. Crazy we have to click back to Waze every time we leave the app while driving.

 

This is exactly why I’ve just learnt to hate email, and enjoy hating it

 

I'd be fine with it if Gmail now supports the snooze feature. Does it? It's invaluable to me to keep my inbox empty and organized.

/edit Oh, I guess it does.

https://support.google.com/inbox/an...l&visit_id=636724413005238330-3006599950&rd=1

 

What’s new? I don’t trust Google products certainly not for their longevity.

 

Classic Google, killing off another failed venture.

 

Unlike Apple, who just lets their products go without updates for years on end...

 

Call it a beta.

 

If only they never bought Sparrow in the first place

 

"Hey everybody, it's Google here. You know that email program that had the interface that was super clean, simple, easy to use, and nothing like gmail (in a good way)? Yeah, we're gonna drop that and have you use gmail again. Don't worry, it's just like inbox because it has a round button now. And we added the features that you won't be able to find anymore. Thaaaaaaaanks"

 

you can still do that in gmail, if you used their tabbed categories. go into notification settings and select PRIMARY only.

 

This thread makes me question my decision to use Google Keep.

 

I don’t think it does. I’ve followed the steps in that link and the (up to date) Gmail app on my iPhone doesn’t have snooze at all :-(

 

I think it does but not as well as inbox and I don't think gmail has snooze option on ios notifications. At least that's what I remember when I briefly tried the gmail app again when they introduced snooze. Could be wrong though. I just remember not liking something about the gmail app. I actually wanted to like it more than inbox as well.

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I mean I rather have just one email client from Google but at least merge or transfer all the good features from the beta inbox into gmail. Hopefully that happens before they officially axe Inbox.

 

it does have snooze but it takes a few more taps than it did in INBOX