Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media – CNET News

Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media – CNET News: “Leca says that the company will continue to make Sparrow available, and keep it up and running with support, though he did not offer any details about the addition of any new features in the months ahead.”

Here’s a snippet of the email I got:

We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as we’ll be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps.

I can’t view this as anything but bad news for Sparrow users. Like me. I use Sparrow on both the Mac and the iPhone. And now they’re dead. And this is why the Open Source guys are right. Sigh.