Just saw the notification on my app this morning. Very unfortunate - I've been using it for as long as I remember, it was my favorite calendar app.
Any alternatives?
Sunrise is shutting down
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#22Well, this is disappointing. I was late to the Sunrise party, so I've barely been able to use it. I'm not thrilled about heavily integrating Outlook into my future work, so I guess it's off to find another solution.
It's a bit unexpected, but I've found Outlook to be the best iOS email client these days. It's bloated and has quite a few rendering bugs, but for the basic email-as-task-list workflow pioneered by Mailbox et al I haven't come across any current players that are better. Kind of sad that the explosion of clever email and calendar apps a few years ago has collapsed into a handful that aren't as good as we used to have.
You should check out https://www.uniboxapp.com, I switched to it during the first beta testing, and haven't looked back. Originally it was a Mac OSX only client, but now on iPhone and iPad. Organizes email by the person you're communicating with, like text messaging. Obviously an email client only, and not a super duper corporate client.
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#23Super bummed by this. The integrations were priceless. Taking recs on any alternative.
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#24This is becoming a tiring pattern. I've just gotten used to the UI. Can anyone commit to building a proper business? Is Sustainability no longer a virtue of creating a service/application?
The goal of a business is to make money.
They got bought out. That presumably made them money.
How is that not a proper business?
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#25This is becoming a tiring pattern. I've just gotten used to the UI. Can anyone commit to building a proper business? Is Sustainability no longer a virtue of creating a service/application?
> Can anyone commit to building a proper business?
How about we users commit to building the tools we need, and forget about relying on businesses to do it for us?
That's what free software is all about — head on over to the Free Software Foundation and pitch in today!
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#26Well this sucks. anyone found a good alternative?
They're not being dishonest in characterizing this as more than a simple acqui-hire; most of the functionality of Sunrise is faithfully replicated in Outlook for iOS now (which, if you're not aware, was actually itself born out of the acquisition of a multi-protocol email app called Accompli, and still includes support for a variety of non-Exchange mail services). Unfortunately, missing features include the long-press natural language "quick-add" input box, and setting multiple reminders on events.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't deserve any thanks for remorselessly fucking over their users.
Their users don't deserve anything as they were enjoying the use of a free product. They've given everyone a good amount of notice to move on.
Without their users they wouldn't have gotten this nice cushy acquihire.
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#28Once a startup gets bought, I look for alternatives. If they don't shut down, I still learned something new! But usually they do. In this case, I landed on Fantastical [1] — it's a little pricy but completely worth it. (Mac/iOS only.) [1]: https://flexibits.com/fantastical
Sometimes there are no great alternatives :(
I still use Sparrow for email on Mac. Would use it on iOS too, but it's quite buggy in iOS9. Spark is _almost_ as good as Sparrow on iOS, but it's free which makes me wonder whether they're doing some kind of data mining for revenue and how long they will be around.
P.S. +1 for fantastical, it's great!
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their users don't deserve anything as they were enjoying the use of a free product. They've given everyone a good amount of notice to move on.
Without their users they wouldn't have gotten this nice cushy acquihire.
So, everybody wins. The users got a free product for a few years, Sunrise got acquihired.
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#30Drat, the best calendar app I've used on Android (except for the 46 notifications it gave for Easter Monday, and 58 for the last English Bank Holiday).
I will miss it.