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Does Sparrow's shelving completely block your access to your favorite email service?

• mattmanser 14y ago
  What does that have to do with his point? It's totally irrelevant. People love Sparrow, I can only assume because it made their lives better. A tiny few are benefiting from the Sparrow acquisition, lots are realizing they're going to suffer in the long run by having to degrade, or at least Sparrow eventually falling behind other products in some areas. But obviously the product wasn't generating enough revenue to protect it from a predatory acquisition. This is no different from the 80s days of people buying companies to dismantle them so they can sell the assets. It's just that the assets are developers. So people are lamenting that something, somewhere in the equation is wrong. And it's probably down to the low prices they're charging in the app store. Cheer on the cash out all you like, but it's never good for the customers. Time and time and time again the customers always suffer in these kind of acquisitions.
  • rogerchucker 14y ago
    The email service is more important than a fucking app that makes one's life better. This kind of hysteria should be reserved for the day that email service shuts down. BTW low pricing of apps is essentially (or at least was at the beginning) because without that Apple would not have been successful in persuading consumers to adopt paid apps on a tiny device - in most consumers' mind (even today), a software is worth paying if it is on a "real computer" and does something "big" (like statistics or anti-virus or the OS). Everything else is taken for granted and to change that mindset low prices were a necessity. And it still is thanks to the gazillion apps out there.