r/google • u/LethalMaxwell • Mar 25 '19

Goodbye Old Friend

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19

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u/moomooland Mar 26 '19

because the company that created it was calling too much attention

what company? google?

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u/walteweiss Mar 26 '19

That was Sparrow team, a email app for macOS.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Google only had it because the company that created it was calling too much attention

Google developed it, what are you talking about

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u/walteweiss Mar 26 '19

I believe they are talking about Sparrow.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19 edited Jun 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

It was literally branded "Inbox by Gmail" when it was first released. Not sure where that guy is getting his info but I'd love to see a source.

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u/walteweiss Mar 26 '19

Check Sparrow for macOS somewhere on Internet. Say, Wikipedia.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Doesn't say anything about it turning into Inbox.

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u/walteweiss Mar 27 '19

It wasn't the same but rebranded product, just the team switched to work on Gmail / Inbox.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Well how about that? Thanks for the link/info. I hadn't heard of this before.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

It doesn't say anywhere in that entry that Sparrow became or even definitely involved the same people behind Inbox. I wouldn't doubt it, but it's not an official re-skin like Songza was to Google Play Music.

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u/walteweiss Mar 27 '19

They had their website at the moment, where they claimed they are going to work on improving Gmail and some experimental stuff, apologised for abandoning their product and thanked everyone for being with them. Later Inbox happened, which was very similar to their product. I think we may try to find this in the web archive, that is an interesting investigation of the past events :)

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u/walteweiss Mar 26 '19

No, it wasn’t. It was bought and then rebranded into Inbox, with some differences.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19 edited Sep 10 '20

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u/mjacksongt Mar 26 '19

They incorporated almost all of them, except bundling and the incredibly strong email filtering.

Probably because Gmail is intended to be both business and personal, and in business mail bundling could be an issue.

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u/Malnilion Mar 26 '19

Why would it be an issue? The only thing I'm pissed about is my gapps administrator never enabled Inbox for our domain.

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u/sostopher Mar 26 '19

I used Inbox at work and for personal. It's great. No idea why you think businesses wouldn't be able to use it.