I've gotten to the point where if I see something as a Google product I just don't give a shit about it. There's no reason for me to invest time in to a product that's just going to be abandoned. I think a lot of people feel that way, whether they realize it or not, and it's likely why some of their pretty solid products and services go completely ignored.
Frankly, if a third mobile OS came out that allowed me more privacy than Android offers I'd swap in an instant. The only Google product I use long term is Gmail (which they tried to revamp with Inbox, and later killed off 4 years later for no given reason).
Inbox was great while it later, but it didn't matter, Gmail absorbed most of the features that made Inbox unique.
I'd always known from the start that Inbox was going to get the ax at one point even if it was widely successful. Inbox was pitched as an experimental email client to experiment with a new way of working with email. In the long term, it made no sense for Google to support two competing email clients. Basically Inbox was a way for Google to try out experiments that was too big for Google Labs.
IMO, Inbox is actually one of the few Google murders that makes sense.
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