[therealmarv]

Extra First Class World problems: Inbox is not optimized for iPhone X. Everytime I read this I cringe.

How about the thought that your phone broke common UI behaviour and not your software which needs to adapt to a new screen culture.

I'm sure very soon Inbox will support iPhone X. But there are many other problems in Inbox which I see more important like Unspam emails without Gmail.

[saagarjha]

> How about the thought that your phone broke common UI behaviour

Ok, sure…

> and not your software which needs to adapt to a new screen culture.

Why not? UI paradigms change all the time, and software usually keeps up if it wants to stay relevant. How is this different?

[matwood]

> Inbox is not optimized for iPhone X.

This has led me to think Inbox is on its way out. Lack of updates is the classic Google move prior to killing a product.

[spookthesunset]

> This has led me to think Inbox is on its way out.

Any time an app takes forever to update to a new apple screen resolution is a good indicator the app is on its way out.

I mean, think about it.... if you were all-in on your app, wouldn't the highest priority fixes on your backlog be "get the damn thing to run in the native resolution of your target device"?

[xoxoavi]

True that. But I hope that's not your only take away from the article :) Still they updated everything else - so I guess they didn't cringe at that. Apple breaking UI standards, yap, they always do, gotta write on that too.

[therealmarv]

No that's not the my only take from the article ;)

btw. I've read once in a German Blog that using on iPhone the app Outlook as a frontend for Inbox works really well. Never tried it myself but it seems this Frankenstein setup works better than expected.