Google is Buying Sparrow, but not Updating the Apps
Google buys Sparrow, current apps will not get any new features | The Verge.
This is annoying. The only thing that was stopping me from making Sparrow my default mail client on my iPhone was the fact that it doesn’t do rotation to landscape mode yet. Now it looks like it never will.
It’s rarely good in the long run when big software companies hoover up small ones, it seems to me.