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Re:Former founder of Wunderlist wants to acquire it back fro... by PalmCentro on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:17PM (#20898893)
Microsoft paid more than 100 million dollars to kill this.
Re:Former founder of Wunderlist wants to acquire it back fro... by WorldMaker on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:11PM (#20899443)
They didn't kill it, they did exactly what they promised to do: they converted it into an Outlook sub-brand tool that speaks Exchange first and everything else second. It's just unfortunate that it was harder to keep Wunderlist's "soul" than Accompli (Mail) or Sunrise (Calendar) in the conversion/brand and feature alignment, but also maybe not surprising because TODO features have always maybe been historically some of the weakest parts of Outlook.
Re:Former founder of Wunderlist wants to acquire it back fro... by appleiigs on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:41PM (#20899694)
What was so great about Wunderlist? For $100MM, I think the previous owner could build a new one... it's just a to-do list. If you built one for your school project, you'd probably get a C+ due to lack of originality and difficulty.
Re:Former founder of Wunderlist wants to acquire it back fro... by tenebrisalietum on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:51PM (#20900579)
It's way easier than trying to use Outlook for that purpose. Tbh I don't even know how to share tasks in Outlook.
Re:Former founder of Wunderlist wants to acquire it back fro... by meerita on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:42PM (#20900182)
I think the only intesteing thing it was the community around it than the code itself.