Good points. I wonder how they'll feel 6 months from now. Google isn't the best place for startup folks post-acquisition. With a little patience, I think that

Good points. I wonder how they'll feel 6 months from now. Google isn't the best place for startup folks post-acquisition. With a little patience, I think that they could have done better for themselves as well as their customers. As it is, they may have done well financially with this deal, but they've thrown their fanbase into the garbage and it remains to be seen how they'll do at Google. If enough people liked sparrow, there's a niche for another indie dev to step up and clone the product... and maybe it could even begin as some kind of kickstarter project. but this time make sure that the product has at least an open-source version.