Google Acquires Email App Maker Sparrow
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Jul 20, 2012, 11:19 AM by Eric M. Zeman
Sparrow today announced that it has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum. Sparrow offers a Gmail client for Apple computers and for the iPhone. The company said that it will be joining Google's Gmail team, to "accomplish a bigger vision ... that we think we can better achieve with Google." Sparrow will continue to support its current products and customers.
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That royally stinks
Sparrow was an *exceptional* application. Now they've purchased it and are killing it off. Now we lose a really terrific desktop/mobile client, and given how absolutely terrible Gmail for iOS and Gmail for Android is, it's pretty sad.
Isn't that why they bought them ? Maybe they realised that their App should be filed under G (for garbage) and maybe they want to make it better by buying the competition, and using them to improve their own products.
Who says they are killing it?
Sparse-o
In my opinion, Sparrow is a downgrade compared to gmail. "Sparse-o's email client resembles the first generation of Outlook Express.