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Anyone concerned they will pull gCal support to drive customers towards MSFT products?

Uh, this is the Microsoft who integrated Dropbox into Office 365 as a first-class citizen, alongside OneDrive.

They've discovered that one of the ways to success, aside from vendor lock-in, is to make your product integrate with as many other products as possible

Yea I guess I'm still getting used to the new MSFT (partnerships, open source, ec.)

How would that possibly work? Removing Google Calendar support wouldn't drive anyone toward Microsoft. It would just drive them away from Sunrise. People don't choose their Calendar provider based on Sunrise support. They choose their Calendar provider first and might use Sunrise if it supports their Calendar and they like it.

hey – pierre from sunrise here i agree – we will continue to support Google Calendar

Hey, since I've got you on the line, so to speak, is there a fix for Exchange accounts on Lollipop coming? I love Sunrise but can't sync my work calendar to it on Android Lollipop, which unfortunately makes it not useful now.

Reviews in the Play store indicate that I'm not the only one hitting this issue, but I couldn't find anything acknowledging the issue on the Sunrise support site.

What Exchange server are you using?

Pretty sure I'm actually hosted on O365, but I don't think it's relevant. Sunrise doesn't even see the account when I try to add an Exchange calendar. It pops up a message saying something like "There is no Exchange accounts [sic] on this phone". This seems potentially related to the fact that the Gmail app is now handling Exchange accounts instead of the default Mail app.

Here are a couple of reviews that mention this issue:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.sunrise.and...

Actually it looks like this was fixed in a rollout on the 4th. I wasn't seeing that update when I looked yesterday, but it's working now. :)

Isn't Google trying to do that when they kill CalDav support?

I think sunrise (and just about every other app that integrates google calendar) uses the Calendar API, not CalDav.

GCal support is the who point of the product, no?

If they don't, definitely will be switching off. I love that it integrates with my FB events and various google calendars.

There is no benefit for MSFT to do that. If anything they are doing it to get gCal support onto their own mobile offerings.

Given what they did with Accompli, not at all

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