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While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.

Here's hoping that that means my Sparrow app isn't going anywhere...

Hopefully they're also not using Google's definition of 'support.'

It's name will just be changed to "Gmail" in the next release, I suspect.

And the cost will be $0?

And it will stop being maintained

Yeah, because Google has no interest in maintaining the official Gmail app...

Google has abandoned tons of stuff and poorly maintains lots of others.

Agreed.

I don't even see how anyone could debate this.

> Google buys Sparrow, current apps will not get any new features

we're off to a great start.

And Google has not been shy about killing stuff outright, or gutting products to force users into G+, these last two years.