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My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. The history is they are effectively abandoned and/or shut down on the order of weeks and months

My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. The history is they are effectively abandoned and/or shut down on the order of weeks and months not years. See Dropbox/Mailbox.

leovander 1y ago
I miss waiting in that large invite queue until you were finally let in, what felt like the first inbox zero proponents and possibly(?) introducing the swiping rows with different actions depending how much you swiped.
- atlantacrackers 1y ago
  And, you could reorder the emails inside your inbox!
diggan 1y ago
> My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. Ignoring the constraint of "email client", has there been any acquisitions where the acquired product got better post-acquisition? I can think of countless examples where it got worse, but from the top of my head, I can only think of maybe YouTube, but then only in the initial post-purchase period, and same goes for a bunch of other examples. They seem to eventually always turn sour. Maybe GitHub? But it traded "no new features - no downtime" for "some new features - a lot of downtime" after the Microsoft purchase, so I guess it's very subjective, probably at least some people like that tradeoff.
- atlantacrackers 1y ago
  Honestly...true. Even Rapportive (same founder) effectively died post acquisition by linkedin, no?
- hiddencost 1y ago
  YouTube. Android. Google maps.
- gghffguhvc 1y ago
  Arm Diamond Aircraft Volvo Cirrus All retained their culture and brand and the products keep improving incrementally. Parent companies keep a low profile wrt product.
  - pickledoyster 1y ago
    Volvo owners I know would disagree vehemently
    - jjtheblunt 1y ago
      barely off topic, but your comment reminds me of SAAB (which i had and loved) being acquired by GM (which phased it out, after making it bland).
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latexr 1y ago
> See Dropbox/Mailbox. And Google/Sparrow.
- voigt 1y ago
  Really miss Sparrow! To me it was the perfect email client.
insane_dreamer 1y ago
Sparrow

My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. The history is they are effectively abandoned and/or shut down on the order of weeks and months not years. See Dropbox/Mailbox.

leovander 1y ago

I miss waiting in that large invite queue until you were finally let in, what felt like the first inbox zero proponents and possibly(?) introducing the swiping rows with different actions depending how much you swiped.

atlantacrackers 1y ago
And, you could reorder the emails inside your inbox!

diggan 1y ago

> My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. Ignoring the constraint of "email client", has there been any acquisitions where the acquired product got better post-acquisition? I can think of countless examples where it got worse, but from the top of my head, I can only think of maybe YouTube, but then only in the initial post-purchase period, and same goes for a bunch of other examples. They seem to eventually always turn sour. Maybe GitHub? But it traded "no new features - no downtime" for "some new features - a lot of downtime" after the Microsoft purchase, so I guess it's very subjective, probably at least some people like that tradeoff.

atlantacrackers 1y ago
Honestly...true. Even Rapportive (same founder) effectively died post acquisition by linkedin, no?
hiddencost 1y ago
YouTube. Android. Google maps.
gghffguhvc 1y ago
Arm Diamond Aircraft Volvo Cirrus All retained their culture and brand and the products keep improving incrementally. Parent companies keep a low profile wrt product.
- pickledoyster 1y ago
  Volvo owners I know would disagree vehemently
  - jjtheblunt 1y ago
    barely off topic, but your comment reminds me of SAAB (which i had and loved) being acquired by GM (which phased it out, after making it bland).

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latexr 1y ago

> See Dropbox/Mailbox. And Google/Sparrow.

voigt 1y ago
Really miss Sparrow! To me it was the perfect email client.

insane_dreamer 1y ago

Sparrow