Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything

Re:Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything by rconti on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @12:36AM (#9889735)

Well, now we know what happened to all of the previously-good Google products. I hate to complain about free products, but will make an exception for Google, which constantly removes features and usability as if a PM's bonus depends on it.

Give me back my color-coded GMail threads, ability to edit the subject without multiple clicks, and view features not hidden by submenus.

And that's just GMail, and that's just off the top of my head.

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Re:Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything by tracker1 on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @02:18AM (#9889983)

LOL.. I switched to Hangouts (from Voice) for my SMS, voicemail and messaging... on my phone, it works pretty nicely... on the desktop actually sending an SMS from my GV number to a contact is nearly impossibly without entering the phone number by hand.

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Re:Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything by icelancer on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @05:32AM (#9890447)

>on the desktop actually sending an SMS from my GV number to a contact is nearly impossibly without entering the phone number by hand.

Yes, this is absolutely ridiculous. I have to look up the phone number using Google Voice plugin (which is nothing but a directory search now since Hangouts disables it), copy/paste the number into Hangouts, and SMS/call from there. It is completely unacceptable.

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Re:Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything by 72deluxe on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:51AM (#9890357)

Not available for me in the UK.

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Re:Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything by vidarh on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:38AM (#9890772)

I keep seriously wanting to write a webmail client again... Inbox is great in many ways, but it's also taken so many wrong steps, such as making it harder to see timestamp etc. and obscuring subjects.

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