Uh, most useful features of Inbox have made it into GMail at this point.

(I was an exclusively-inbox user for quite a while)

I'm happy just using gmail now that the features are there.

I tried some of the extra bundling features and just didn't find them that useful. It was kind of nice but not so nice that i really miss it.

> Uh, most useful features of Inbox have made it into GMail at this point.

Inbox’s basic organization hasn't, and that's it's key useful feature and the one most of the rest build on.

Calendar is the only thing I've found that integrates really well with absolutely everything

Sheets is neat too.

I say the same about startups. I resent that they don't keep pouring their time, money, and passion into efforts that lack product/market fit. As long as I'm not paying for it, I vote that they continue investing.

Drive...

Oh, you mean Google One?

Nah they mean Docs pretty sure ;)

Keep is really handy.

Keep is the next app that I expect to get axed. It's amazing and hugely useful and, crucially, nobody ever talks about it - just like Inbox. Perfectly positioned to be killed.

The tie in to assistant, used as a shopping list, was already axed for some garbage online-only thing that can't even reorder items.

While you're not being "facetious" you're being "glib".

Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation and now they are folding it back in.

Besides you're making it sound like there was some huge cost involved in adopting or in abandoning Inbox, which there isn't.

You've repeatedly created accounts with a propaganda agenda for Google. You've been doing it for years. We've banned you many times before, and I've banned this account. Doing this is a serious abuse of HN, regardless of the company you're promoting or what your motive is. Would you please stop?

HN is for curious humans to exchange thoughts in community. It's hard to imagine anything that undermines curiosity or community worse than this. We frequently ask users not to accuse each other of astroturfing or shilling without evidence, but when we do find evidence—and there's a lot of it in this case—we come down hard pretty quickly.

>Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation

What was "obvious" about it? Here's how Google introduced it: "Inbox by Gmail is a new app from the Gmail team. Inbox is an organized place to get things done and get back to what matters. Bundles keep emails organized."

Do you see anything about it being an "experiment" to eventually throw away? Not to mention Gmail already had the Labs feature for experiments.

In fact, what 2 Google representatives had said at the time was:

""We hope, in the long run, that most of our users will be on Inbox." (Alex Gawley)

"We care deeply about Gmail and Gmail users, but in the long run, as we add more features to Inbox and respond to user feedback, we hope that everyone will want to use Inbox instead of Gmail. Ultimately, our users will decide." (Jason Cornwell, Inbox's lead designer)

I couldn't have said it better myself! They tried to sell it as the possible evolution of Gmail. Not some 'experiment' that would partially flow into the Gmail they asked us to abandon for Inbox in the first place.

"Ultimately, our users will decide."