> As for the Sparrow desktop app, well, obviously Google isn't going to be developing a native desktop app for Gmail... Why not? Why would they acqui-hire a te

> As for the Sparrow desktop app, well, obviously Google isn't going to be developing a native desktop app for Gmail... Why not? Why would they acqui-hire a team who have already built an amazing desktop mail app and not release one of their own? Is the idea that Google may simply rebrand Sparrow to "GMail Desktop" so completely out of the realm of possibility? Sure, maybe they want the developers to work on other projects, but when their specialty is creating OS X desktop software (it's a lot different than webapp developement), it seems counterintuitive to completely nix this idea as feasible.