Talk:Inbox by Gmail

DYK nomination

{{Did you know nominations/Google Inbox}} czar ♔ 06:59, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

No Aleesu George (talk) 13:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Confusing

Google's marketing about this service is pretty confusing, and this article has largely adopted that confusing language. Natural questions on which it's unclear include:

• Does this display the messages in one's regular gmail account, or is it a separate e-mail service with separate accounts and addresses? (Answer is the former, but "Inbox by Gmail is an email service developed by Google" suggests otherwise.)
• It says it's a "completely different type of inbox". Conceptually, an inbox is a set of data (e-mails). An e-mail application or web interface is not the inbox itself, it's just an interface to access the inbox. In this "Inbox by Gmail", is the structure of the underlying data different, or is it just a different interface for the same data? If you use "Inbox by Gmail", does your account contain data that can't be accessed from the regular gmail interface, or IMAP/POP3? (Iiuc the answer is it's mostly just a different interface, but it does contain additional data, such as reminders.)
• A typical e-mail service uses multiple folders, one of which is Inbox. Gmail uses labels in place of custom folders, but it still has folders such as Drafts or Spam. If "Inbox by Gmail" is "a type of inbox", then how does one access other folders? (Answer is that of course it displays other folders too, the name and the marketing are just bs.) Also, if it uses a new interface to display the Inbox folder, does it actually use this interface for the other folders too? (I guess it mostly does, though some features, such as folding, may be unavailable.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Groszdani (talk • contribs) 22:09, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Feel free to clarify the article. Just use reliable sources to do it. No original research. Barte (talk) 23:51, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

iOS stable release is out of date

Looking at the Inbox by Gmail app on iOS, in the settings tab, it says that the current stable release is 1.3.190212. Looking at the purchases tab in the App Store, you can also see that the latest stable release of Inbox by Gmail is 1.3.190212, this version being released "1y ago" (no date given) at the time of me writing this comment. Because Inbox by Gmail is no longer available to the public, the App Store page is only visible by users who have downloaded the app before, and the app is only available for download for those same users (provided they have access to the Apple ID which they used to download the app when live). Therefore it is not possible to provide a citation for this change in version. Unfortunately, the current stable release provided by Wikipedia is not correct, stating version 1.3.181119. 104.185.6.105 (talk) 20:17, 4 May 2020 (UTC) Farzad

I would assume a screenshot would be acceptable for this. It's not like an arbitrary minor build number slapped on a dead product on a platform nobody but users can see is a world-shattering revelation that needs more concrete proof than that, IMO. --A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 11:52, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Tenses issue

The article was, presumably, written in the present tense when Inbox was around, then edited after its demise. However, the text now [21 Sept 23] contains many discordant past and present tense clashes. It should be rewritten to place virtually all references to the program in the past tense. I might do this myself if there are no demurring voices here. Humboles (talk) 20:41, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

I have undertaken the transition of the article to render it in the past tense where appropriate, and to reword some verbose, conversation-style passages in a more encyclopaedic format. Humboles (talk) 18:56, 13 October 2023 (UTC)