Slack Acquires Astro

Re:Slack Acquires Astro by lwb on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:07PM (#18058849)

Everyone's moaning about "aquihire and shut down" but it would make ZERO sense for Slack to do that in this case. Astro was in no way a competitor to Slack. Seems to me like they're going after Gmail for Business.

Edit: Apparently they did shut it down...

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Re:Slack Acquires Astro by corobo on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:10PM (#18058874)

But they did acquire and shut it down. They may have future plans at some point but it has been (or will be very soon) shut down

> On Wednesday October 10, we’ll shut down our Astro apps for Mac, iOS, Android, Amazon Alexa, and Slack. As of today, we’ve also disabled signups of new users.

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Re:Slack Acquires Astro by maxxxxx on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:18PM (#18058943)

October 10 is really short. That doesn't give people much time.

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Re:Slack Acquires Astro by mrisoli on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:18PM (#18058946)

Well they are doing that, doesn't mean it's because of competition, maybe it was just for the talent and keeping the app up isn't worth their time and they would rather the newly-acquired employees focus on something closer to native Slack. Similar to what they did with Screenhero

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Re:Slack Acquires Astro by sashimy on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:37PM (#18059100)

Slack replied to this: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1044260602242363394

The team is focused on making the experience of working in email and Slack seamless. Unfortunately, we're not able to support the existing products. Apologies about any inconvenience this causes.

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