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Was this an acquihire or is Google sincerely going to integrate these things into Calendar? If they do, it would be really cool. But Google has also acquired
by TheMagicHorsey 11y ago
Was this an acquihire or is Google sincerely going to integrate these things into Calendar?
If they do, it would be really cool. But Google has also acquired a bunch of other little companies, and it seems like they just digest the teams and have them working on unrelated things.
- SquareWheel 11y agoNot evidence of anything, but I recently got a survey request when using Google Calendar. That's pretty uncommon. So I do wonder if Google is getting interested in the Calendar again, and what they plan to do with it. I'm not familiar with the purchased company but it almost sounds like they'd want to integrate it more into Google Now than Calendar. Maybe some finer integration of both.
- josephpmay 11y agoGoogle has two competing teams working on this kind of thing: the Gmail/Calendar team and the Inbox team. My guess is that the Timeful people will join one of those teams, and whichever one it is gets to integrate these features
- on_and_off 11y agoFrom what I have heard, Inbox has been conceived by some of the guys behind Sparrow (another Google's acquisition). There is a good number of simple acqui-hire, but it looks like from time to time, Google also tries to let these people work on their field of expertise.