I was one of the sandy people about losing Inbox too, but the sunset date is several months out and they have coordinated the timing of the EOL announcement for Inbox with the rollout of all the new Gmail features to people with Gmail via Gapps or whatever they're calling it now.
I have two institutional Gmail accounts and I've been using all of my Gmails with Inbox. They've both (institutional accounts) finally sent an opt-in notice inviting me to try the new Gmail (which looks intended to replace Inbox), and offered to convert me over or let me keep the old Gmail.
Hopefully everyone else is getting this new Gmail too. I'd suggest to try it, if you've been holding out. A lot of the innovations pioneered in Inbox have already been ported over[1]. I was one of the strongest supporters of Inbox to my friends, and I didn't convince very many people to try it, (so I've got that going for me, at least I'm not likely to have to answer this question a hundred times...)
I liked Inbox's implementation of a few of the features better, but there's also a few of them I can't put a finger on. I'll probably switch back and forth several times over the next 6 months. I'm sure I'll be able to articulate it better by then. (In that respect, they've really done a fine and decent thing here, for the betterment of Email at large, so I can't be too sandy about it I guess.)
Notably in all of this, I haven't heard anyone complaining about "this new Gmail and how much crappier it is than the old Gmail." That must mean it's better than the old Gmail. So the experiment is going well, at least a naïve eye might infer that...
[1]: and you're still not losing access to Inbox for 6 months, so you'll have plenty of time to whine about whatever you like most from Inbox that still hasn't made it to Gmail. I'm looking at you, travel bundles...
I was one of the sandy people about losing Inbox too, but the sunset date is several months out and they have coordinated the timing of the EOL announcement for Inbox with the rollout of all the new Gmail features to people with Gmail via Gapps or whatever they're calling it now.
I have two institutional Gmail accounts and I've been using all of my Gmails with Inbox. They've both (institutional accounts) finally sent an opt-in notice inviting me to try the new Gmail (which looks intended to replace Inbox), and offered to convert me over or let me keep the old Gmail.
Hopefully everyone else is getting this new Gmail too. I'd suggest to try it, if you've been holding out. A lot of the innovations pioneered in Inbox have already been ported over[1]. I was one of the strongest supporters of Inbox to my friends, and I didn't convince very many people to try it, (so I've got that going for me, at least I'm not likely to have to answer this question a hundred times...)
I liked Inbox's implementation of a few of the features better, but there's also a few of them I can't put a finger on. I'll probably switch back and forth several times over the next 6 months. I'm sure I'll be able to articulate it better by then. (In that respect, they've really done a fine and decent thing here, for the betterment of Email at large, so I can't be too sandy about it I guess.)
Notably in all of this, I haven't heard anyone complaining about "this new Gmail and how much crappier it is than the old Gmail." That must mean it's better than the old Gmail. So the experiment is going well, at least a naïve eye might infer that...
[1]: and you're still not losing access to Inbox for 6 months, so you'll have plenty of time to whine about whatever you like most from Inbox that still hasn't made it to Gmail. I'm looking at you, travel bundles...