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by ommunist 4217 days ago
OK, I 've got the signal. Google buys email app company, what was it name? Some birdy, wasn't it. And Google shuts it down. Now MS buys email app company...

The is something important in email for big ones, they do not want small ones there it seems. Just paranoid.

Before mobile era there was incredible mail <s>app</s> programme - Calypso. Dead before Google became IPO. No one wanted to support it after it was open sourced. Probably it would be better for it to be bought by some Microsoft. Outlook could learn UTF-8 in subject lines a bit earlier.

UPD: on a second thought. I can see mutt and alpine behave very similarly in terminal apps from iOS. Why, why people like GUI mail so much? Perhaps Calendar integration is the answer?

UPD: Yeah, lads, it was Calypso. Survived till v3.3, but never did better.

1 comments

> Some birdy, wasn't it.

Sparrow

Good one still remembers it. Do you remember Calypso? The end is still the same. Few years will pass, and no one will remember those. Only Google and MS Office. Ah, and mutt for the dedicated.