"This is not a good trend for Apple. Apple is depending on apps like Sparrow to make the iOS platform shine. Excellent apps like Sparrow cost a lot of money to

"This is not a good trend for Apple. Apple is depending on apps like Sparrow to make the iOS platform shine. Excellent apps like Sparrow cost a lot of money to build and maintain. Apple should be working hard to ensure independent app developers can earn even more than top salaries at Google, or they will all be poached away." I'm not sure this even follows. Every time we see an iOS hitmaker acquired in 8-10 digit deals it tells the dev community that their golden ticket is to develop for iOS. ... "There are two things Apple can do to help developers make more money: 1) Allow developers to charge monthly/annual subscription pricing... 2) Allow developers to track the success of social and internet ad campaigns." Neither of these ideas would have gotten Sparrow's devs anywhere close to the money they made by signing up with Google. Sometimes people want to cash out, we need to stop pretending that is the end of an era of decent email clients. Sparrow is still there and it works. Other clients will clone and improve on it.