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Re:A rundown of the new Gmail by bambax on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:32AM (#16919576)
I hate update and always have.

New products are exciting.

Updates are what product managers do when they don't have any idea for a new product and want to justify their existence. It's like "reforms" in politics.

Successful products should be left alone.

Of course they never will, and we suffer. I understand that complaining about it is like complaining about the weather... yet I can't help myself.

Re:A rundown of the new Gmail by r3bl on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:08AM (#16919752)
So... do you like that Google released a dozen of IM programs so far instead of working on one single product and regularly updating it?
Re:A rundown of the new Gmail by bambax on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:37AM (#16919912)
Upvoted! You got me... ;-)

I guess by "new product" I mean something addressing a new problem in a new way. A new function, not a new skin, which all these updates seem to be.

Re:A rundown of the new Gmail by mariusmg on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:40AM (#16919616)
"Successful products"

If you define success by the numbers of users, i guess tweaking the UI makes sense to try to get even more users.