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Full text of the announcement: We're excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience. Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google. We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who hav…
The Sparrow co-founder and CEO Dom Leca discusses Gmail in some detail here...
Interviewer: Why can’t Google write a mail client for the iPhone that’s worth a crap?
Sparrow CEO: Because they don’t really care about it. I mean, they’re not in the native app business, and all that matters with them is to have an app that is identified as the Gmail app on the iOS App Store for mainstream to use, I think. I mean, they don’t believe at all in native things, which makes sense in relation to the whole company.
Interviewer: Right. So they just, they don’t believe in the native thing, or, they probably could deliver it, but they just don’t want to?
Sparrow CEO: Oh, yeah, of course. They could deliver something I think far better than Sparrow or the application they released, but they’re just not allocating any resources to this because they think it’s irrelevant.
Source: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/03/15/interview-dom-leca-of-...
While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users. Here's hoping that that means my Sparrow app isn't going anywhere...
It's name will just be changed to "Gmail" in the next release, I suspect.
While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users. Here's hoping that that means my Sparrow app isn't going anywhere...
I believe now, Sparrow will be a free product :)
Wow. Hopefully this will give Gmail the kick in the pants it needs ... the interface really hasn't changed that much since the early days. (Well, of course it's been prettified a bit, but besides a few things like Priority Inbox there have been scant few changes to the interaction. And I always liked that using Sparrow felt different to using the Gmail web interface.)
And why should it? I haven't used Sparrow, but I have no problems with gmail. How is it different / better?