Re:Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
by richardboegli on Thursday February 18, 2016 @11:36AM
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Look longer term, Inbox will win.
Gmail is a mail client, inbox is so much more.
I don't use it as the ability to only apply a single label to an email is a feature regression.
Chrome and Android will reach feature parity, but will always remain as separate entities due to branding.
Running Android on top of Windows just doesn't sound right, but it is what is effectively happening with Chrome supporting Android apps.
No mixed messages here, Google has a penchant of making 2 of everything[1], and they can keep at it for years at a time. ChromeOS & Android, Google Maps and Google Earth (and Waze!), and so on. There is cross-pollination of ideas, and some products eventually coalesce.
> Is 'Inbox' the next-gen Gmail interface or a hobby project
I think the answer is 'neither', just like the iPad wasn't the next-gen MacBook. Inbox is just another email client that is certainly not for everyone, it holds a little too strongly to the inbox zero philosophy to be mainstream.
Having both Inbox and Gmail as separate products makes sense because at their core, Inbox and GMail are different beasts, I use both for different contexts. Inbox is great for organizing my personal email, GMail is great for work email. I wouldn't trust Inbox to properly organize my work email, and I don't have the energy to manually organize my personal email.
1. http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-stra...