• dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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    I have a very similar story. I was the most Google centric person I know in 2014 and 2015. I grew disillusioned after they killed Inbox. I realized that tech doesn’t always get better with time. Sometimes the money motive leads to tech actively getting worse for users

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      1 year ago

      It’s years later and they still haven’t incorporated inbox features into Gmail like they said they would and probably never will

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        There’s no money behind it, partially because there’s no real competition pushing them to provide a better experience. Plus, anything that saves time with email actually has a perverse financial disincentive. It means less time viewing the Promotions tab in Gmail. Inbox was the last gasp of innovation for its own sake at Google.

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          Well joke’s on them as now I find my email experience so unbearable I barely open it at the cost of missing important stuff :p

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        I miss those features so much - I was also one who had the Googlillusion shattered by the discontinuation of Inbox.

        Me waiting for Inbox features to be incorporated into Gmail: