Same reason why Google Now was killed. It was too useful for users. You open the app, you get the info you want. In fact, you don’t even need to open the app. That’s the problem, they had no place to insert the ads and make money.
Google Now is what the Discover page/feed was when swiping left from the furthest left home screen. It used to be a collection of extremely useful information based on things like date, time, location, contents of your mail box, etc.
It used to just hand you all your reminders, weather info, ticketing information from your inbox, when to leave for an event, etc. It was extremely useful.
So now it’s just a blog spam thing, and it occasionally slips in useful info somewhere in the feed. I can’t stand it. There was also Google Now On Tap, which was basically what became the Assistant. It too, was better.
I assume it had too small popularity comparing to Gmail, introduced confusion - two mail services, required resources and extra communication between teams. So, some one decide to optimize.
If I recall correctly, inbox was kind of test/beta product.
Why did Google kill inbox? Was it somehow not profitable? Couldn’t cram enough ads into it?
Same reason why Google Now was killed. It was too useful for users. You open the app, you get the info you want. In fact, you don’t even need to open the app. That’s the problem, they had no place to insert the ads and make money.
That makes a terrifying amount of sense and I never looked at this issue from the angle you presented. God damn it, fucking capitalism.
Cannot recall what was Google Now. I remember Google+.
Google Now is what the Discover page/feed was when swiping left from the furthest left home screen. It used to be a collection of extremely useful information based on things like date, time, location, contents of your mail box, etc.
It used to just hand you all your reminders, weather info, ticketing information from your inbox, when to leave for an event, etc. It was extremely useful.
So now it’s just a blog spam thing, and it occasionally slips in useful info somewhere in the feed. I can’t stand it. There was also Google Now On Tap, which was basically what became the Assistant. It too, was better.
Insert anything from the ever-growing google graveyard.
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I assume it had too small popularity comparing to Gmail, introduced confusion - two mail services, required resources and extra communication between teams. So, some one decide to optimize.
If I recall correctly, inbox was kind of test/beta product.