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‘Sent with Sparrow,’ no more
By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com
While I con­grat­u­late the Spar­row team on mov­ing on to big­ger and bet­ter projects at Google, one thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth: the fact that the Spar­row team is no longer free to build prod­ucts for itself. When I last spoke at leng…

And thus the paradox of the app economy. “Middle ground” apps, ones which are great but not huge, get bought and killed.

‘Sent with Sparrow,’ no more
By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com

While I con­grat­u­late the Spar­row team on mov­ing on to big­ger and bet­ter projects at Google, one thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth: the fact that the Spar­row team is no longer free to build prod­ucts for itself. When I last spoke at leng…

And thus the paradox of the app economy. “Middle ground” apps, ones which are great but not huge, get bought and killed.