> We’ve heard Microsoft will keep the Sunrise apps alive as stand-alone products, while using some of the startup’s technology for its own future products.
What people hear MS will do and what MS says it will do doesn't really mean too much to me. It's the actions that count.
I remember when lots of people told me how great it was going to be when MS bought Virtual PC for Mac (from Connectix) back in the day...
After MS touched the code, it was the first (and only) app to ever give my Mac a kernel panic. Then, it got even "greater" when MS discontinued Virtual PC for Mac entirely. MS bought it and killed a great app for Mac.
Will Sunrise avoid getting borged and ruined by MS? I hope not, but I'm not counting on it, either.
Times change. Look at some of their recent moves. It would be unusual for them to shut this down entirely. Probably a rebrand and then continued growth is what'll happen.
> It would be unusual for them to shut this down entirely.
Right, but what they have done is shut down development on certain platforms. For example, they'll continue to develop Sunrise for Windows Phone, Windows OS but not for Android and/or make it unusable on Android, Mac, iOS, etc. by degrading the code.
They have a solid history of doing this. There's also a solid history of people telling me not to worry about it and being proven wrong over time. Again, color me skeptical.
