Google has acquired an email application for the iPhone and Mac computers called Sparrow, the latter company announced on Friday. Neither Sparrow or Google immediately disclosed the details of the deal, including how much Google paid. The app was highly rated by users and tech bloggers, who were surprised by the sudden acquisition. Here’s the full note from Sparrow CEO Dom Leca:
We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!
We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience.
Now we’re joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google.
We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who have supported us, advised us, given us priceless feedback and allowed us to build a better mail application. While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.
We had an amazing ride and can’t thank you enough.
Full speed ahead!
Dom Leca
CEO
Sparrow
Sparrow has also sent out an email to its users, obtained by Cult of Mac, announcing that it will no longer release new features for the app, possibly sinking a long-planned iPad version:
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.
The Verge reports that the acquisition price was below $25 milllion.
