from the that's-one-way-to-empty-your-inbox dept.
Google's Inbox app is shutting down in March 2019
Google is bowing to the inevitable and shutting down the Inbox email app, though users will have until March to switch over to Gmail. It's a little sad for fans of the app, but it's also not a very big surprise.
Almost exactly four years ago, Google launched Inbox as an innovative new email app that lived alongside Gmail. It brought a ton of new ideas to how email could work, including old standbys like snoozing and newer ideas like bundling. Over those four years, Inbox gained a small number of adherents who suffered through too-rare updates so they could have a better (or at least different) email experience.
A lot of the features in Inbox were well-loved, mainly because they were so obviously lacking in Gmail without dealing with hacky third-party solutions. Inbox provided a way to manage the onslaught of email with gestures that made it easy to process messages on the go. It was also generally seen as a potential incubator for new email features that could come to Gmail — though, in practice, Inbox didn't see enough updates to justify its reputation as a testing ground.
Most features have already been incorporated into the main Gmail.
(Score: 1) by NateMich on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:13PM (2 children)
When are they shutting down the search engine?
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:35PM
The moment they figure how to create hypodermic injections of ads.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:28PM
I read the "Google is shutting down" part, then realized it was only about inbox.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:36PM (2 children)
Google, it's time to put the lotion in the basket.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:22PM
Don't bother. Just give it the hose again!
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday September 14 2018, @04:10AM
Picasa - because Instagram needed all that market share.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:19PM (3 children)
Only old people use email.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:25PM (1 child)
There are young spammers who use email.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:45PM
It's old geezers spamming other old geezers. You fuck the ones you know, you know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @12:44AM
Yep those yung-ins using those watered down versions of IRC and Usenet...
I think you may underestimate how large companies still use it. By many orders of magnitude.
(Score: 2) by Dale on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:22PM (1 child)
I just gave in to the nag messages about it 6 months ago to switch over to it. It really hasn't been any different than the regular app, just with a blue theme instead of red. It groups certain messages from Amazon or financial institutions, but that is about the only noticeable thing I saw.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:30PM
I held out, assuming I would eventually be forced to switch. (aka, Windows 10 style "choose" to upgrade)
Now I find that my
apathyactive defiance has paid off.People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:38PM (1 child)
They will fuck up Gmail even more to compensate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @12:46AM
This man googles....