My first reaction was - oh fuck. Am I alone.
Why? If you use Sparrow, you use Gmail. So it's an odd place for a Google-hater to be.
I don't. I use my own IMAP4 server with Sparrow.
Sparrow acquired by Google
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Re: Sparrow acquired by Google
#72Sparrow had a $4.99 (half-off) sale last weekend (https://twitter.com/lifehacker/statuses/223750237490126849). Borders on fraud, if you ask me - scamming people into buying what they had to have known by then they were planning on turning into abandonware a week later.
Re: Sparrow acquired by Google
#73This makes me sad as a user, but it seems to be the trend that smaller companies that make great products get acquired by big companies for talent, and those great products disappear.
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#74Anyone see a price of how much Google paid Sparrow?
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#75The email Sparrow is sending out, looks like there won't be any future feature additions: Hello, We're excited to let you know that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! You can view our public announcement here, but I wanted to reach out directly to make sure you were aware of the news. We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as…
As someone who bought Sparrow on the day it was released - and is in love with it - this feels like a big middle finger to the customers who have been supporting them. The core of my disappointment is the expectation of future development that comes with buying into a relatively new piece of software. I didn't buy Sparrow thinking I was paying for a piece of software that was feature-complete. I bought Sparrow mail a…
Now imagine if you'd bought it last weekend in their half-off sale. https://twitter.com/lifehacker/statuses/223750237490126849
"Let's make as much money from our abandonware as possible before we have to tell everyone it's abandonware."
Re: Sparrow acquired by Google
#76The email Sparrow is sending out, looks like there won't be any future feature additions: Hello, We're excited to let you know that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! You can view our public announcement here, but I wanted to reach out directly to make sure you were aware of the news. We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as…
Looks like we can kiss getting push notifications on iPhone and the teased iPad version goodbye.
And I just purchased that app yesterday. I'll try and pursue getting a refund from Apple, although I'm not sure how successful I will be in the process. It's aggravating seeing potentially amazing start-up companies get purchased by a large company and then everything they've done seemingly ceases to exist.
Also, how many companies that Google acquires eventually just die off?
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#77First Thunderbird then this, what's a native-email-app user to do?
I wonder what ever happened to that Letters email app for OS X that people were wanting to build? There was a flurry of activity and complaints about Mail.app and then nothing.
Re: Sparrow acquired by Google
#78And thus, my dream of finally getting a Sparrow native client for iPad is crushed, like bug.
Who wants to build a really super good Gmail client for iPad? Both Google's web-based version as well as their native app are pretty feature-light, and slow, so it seems like there's definitely a market there.
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#79Congrats on building a fabulous software product then commercializing (abandoning) it. I'm excited for my stale future ahead. I only hope the team was well compensated in this acquisition.
- selfish consumer
Re: Sparrow acquired by Google
#80This is sad and frustrating, guess I'm going back to Mail.app.