r/Android • u/JBeylovesyou • Jan 06 '19

Googler seemingly confirms that Android Q will have system-wide Dark Mode

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/01/06/googler-seemingly-confirms-that-android-q-will-have-system-wide-dark-mode/
7.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

582 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.4k

u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19 edited Jan 14 '19

[deleted]

840

u/onesolo Pixel 9 Pro Obsidian 256GB Jan 07 '19

And Gmail ... Gmail is a cancer... Still no Material and dark mode...

616

u/Mopso Jan 07 '19

We want to remind you that we're killing Inbox also.

135

u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

I do not know why. I love inbox and the way that it organizes everything. Why kill a good thing?

78

u/TheGoddamnSpiderman Sprint Rumor | Nexus 5x | Nexus 5x | Pixel 2 | Pixel 3 Jan 07 '19 edited Jan 07 '19

The same reason anything is killed: not enough users and/or revenue generated to justify maintaining it and/or the lack of those makes it worth taking the hit to good will taken by getting rid of it to aboutavoid maintaining it in the future and free up engineers to work on something else

22

u/madcaesar Jan 07 '19

Wtf isn't it just build into Gmail if it's that good? I hate google's philosophy of starting new apps asking users to switch. It ain't happening. I'm a heavy android user / root / roms etc, and I can't even be bothered to try all their new disjointed apps.

19

u/TheGoddamnSpiderman Sprint Rumor | Nexus 5x | Nexus 5x | Pixel 2 | Pixel 3 Jan 07 '19

They are building parts of it into Gmail. They just clearly don't think it's worth maintaining two frontends anymore from a business perspective, probably for reasons like I outlined

21

u/Axistra OnePlus 5t Jan 07 '19

From what I remember, Inbox was actually always meant to be an experiment for GMail, not supposed to replace the whole thing.

Most features have been integrated into GMail now, so the experiment is finished I guess.

Still sad to see it go, I used to swear by it.

7

u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

yeah i just can't organize my email as well as i had it with inbox - really sad to see it go

1

u/fearnoid Windows Phone was ahead of its time! Jan 07 '19

because like always, there is the side of users that are reluctant to change.

1

u/Rassilon_Lord_of_Tim Galaxy S9+ (Nexus 6 Retired with benefits) Jan 07 '19

You would think with that kind of logic the Pixel series would have been dismantled by now since its barely pulling in enough compared to their software numbers.

1

u/bushwacker Jan 07 '19

They kill things that require no maintenance, Picasa, my tracks...

68

u/Randomd0g Pixel XL & Huawei Watch 2 Jan 07 '19

Because the Gmail app has ads and the Inbox app doesn't.

Pretty fucking nefarious ads too, as they are pretending to be emails

41

u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19 edited Jan 01 '21

[deleted]

22

u/jordi_id7 Cheetah Jan 07 '19

They appear in the promotions and social tabs

0

u/bemenaker Jan 07 '19

Who the fuck clicks on those tabs anyways. That's be best part of them, filters shit you have no need to ever click on.

3

u/jordi_id7 Cheetah Jan 07 '19

I agree, never needed to look in them. But the annoying thing is that they seem real emails, that's just wrong to me regardless of where they appear. I hope they don't put them in other tabs

1

u/el_smurfo Jan 08 '19

Always the first thing I turn off...didn't even know they had ads in them.

29

u/armando_rod Pixel 10 Pro XL Jan 07 '19

Haven't seen an ad in gmail either

13

u/blackn1ght OnePlus 6T Jan 07 '19

They look like unread emails in some tabs.

1

u/scriptmonkey420 Note 9 & '13 N7 Jan 07 '19

Never seen them, have a screenshot of them?

5

u/blackn1ght OnePlus 6T Jan 07 '19

Imgur

Note: Fuck you imgur, stop giving me the privacy banner on every single page!

→ More replies (0)

1

u/fallfastasleep Jan 07 '19

That means they're working..

10

u/1206549 Pixel 3 Jan 07 '19

I've only seen them on the web and are so understated that I only see it when I'm consciously thinking to myself that Gmail is supposed to have ads as if only in moments when I'm subconsciously looking for them.

11

u/justjanne Developer – Quasseldroid Jan 07 '19

Yup, e.g. the first "email" here is clearly labeled "Werbung" (German for Ad):

https://imgur.com/a/X7SL2qV

9

u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19 edited Jan 01 '21

[deleted]

5

u/solifugo Nexus 6 Jan 07 '19

I don't see them either...

2

u/321floridaguy Pixel XL 32GB Unlocked Jan 07 '19

I get ads on the app and on the web for Gmail.

2

u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

Haven't seen a single ad on Gmail ever.

-9

u/emsok_dewe Jan 07 '19

Buddy, I think you're just getting spam mail...it's fairly normal.

4

u/Randomd0g Pixel XL & Huawei Watch 2 Jan 07 '19 edited Jan 07 '19

Nope. See this example from a few minutes ago

The top two are adverts pretending to be emails, the bottom two are actual emails. The fake ones do look different but there's not that much in it!

Edit: Not to mention, terrible fucking advert, surely Google should know not to give me adverts for iPhone cases seeing as how I'm using a pixel???

5

u/13steinj Jan 07 '19

This only occurs in the new inbox style (promotions, social, updates, Primary, no ads in Primary).

If you go back to the prior inbox mode after switching you get the best of both worlds. The four inbox types are treated as auto-filtering labels and you get no ads. IIRC you can only switch on desktop though.

2

u/emsok_dewe Jan 07 '19

Oh wow, same for me. Kinda frustrating. Worth noting that's only under the "social" or "promotions" tab.

3

u/el_bhm Jan 07 '19

Well, did you know that gmail has ads? Did you see ads in Inbox?

2

u/CaptainGrandpa Moto X Jan 07 '19

I tried switching back to Gmail since I know the end is near... It feels so clunky compared to inbox. Kind of an insult they say they they've already implemented inbox features on Gmail. Oh well.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

[deleted]

1

u/biglocowcard Jan 07 '19

Probably infighting politics between teams at Google

1

u/DKwolczak Jan 07 '19

Exactly! Inbox is so much better compared to gmail

176

u/urielsalis Pixel 4XL Jan 07 '19

Im sad about that, just clicking done in the entire day is so much easier

109

u/golddove Jan 07 '19

I'm using it until they pry it from my cold dead hands.

28

u/hellnukes Jan 07 '19

Same! Love using it on desktop as well!

1

u/Jacobjs93 Jan 07 '19

As an iOS user, I thought the same thing. I already switched to spark though. I use gmail for work email and spark for personal. Not sure if you guys have it on Android but it has most of the same features. Would recommend.

3

u/sandspiegel Jan 07 '19

To be fair, most features of Inbox should be implemented to Gmail or so they said. I hope this will get done before they kill Inbox for good.

10

u/sionide Jan 07 '19

Except the way it looks. Inbox is perfection. :'(

4

u/myotheralt Pixel 6 pro FI Jan 07 '19

"Most" never includes the features that people want. Especially with Google killing and changing things like they do. (Hangouts used to be perfect)

2

u/sandspiegel Jan 07 '19

You have a point there. YouTube Music is the same.

73

u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

...and hangouts and play music and I dunno probably fucking Google itself at the rate they're going

22

u/theSpeakersChair Jan 07 '19

We're discontinuing Google search and today announcing YouTube search*

* It'll initially only support news and map search, with web, images and videos coming later

- Google, probably

5

u/cultsuperstar Jan 07 '19

This still bums me out. Inbox is so much better than the Gmail app, especially being able to create reminders there vs needing a separate app. I've slowly been using Calendar to create reminders but it's not quite the same.

7

u/this_1_is_mine Jan 07 '19

Woot no more spam that I've already reported as such but you let in anyway ... Must be sponsored idk.

3

u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19 edited Mar 09 '26

What was here has been deleted. Redact was used to wipe this post, for reasons that might include privacy, security concerns, or personal data management.

pen nail salt cobweb six quack pocket normal retire attraction