Greplin is by no means scrapped. All of that search functionality still exists and is an integral part of the app and website. Think of it as adding a new feature ("What's next") and that being the default screen, with search only one tap away.

Also, in what circumstance would it ever make sense for a rational business to revoke your credentials and assume that because they've added functionality you just might not want to use the product anymore? They should just cut off all access and make you go through the whole process of re-enabling it?

That sounds like you're demanding seppuku, and I think you're overreacting quite significantly.

I went to greplin.com and was redirected to a cue splash page with no indication that greplin still existed (a link has since been added). Between this redirect away from of greplin.com and the link title "greplin becomes cue," it seemed clear that greplin was no more. It turns out greplin is not scrapped, they have added a link back to it, so you are right I was premature in expecting them to revoke permissions.

That said, if they had in fact replaced a web service with an iPhone app, that would be a fundamentally different product that I did not sign up for, and I would expect them to yield my permissions and start over, or send an email with "click to transfer permissions to the new product." What if they "pivot" to become an email marketer? Would my permissions ride along there? You are right in this case, however.

I definitely get where you're coming from. I don't know the full story, but it seems they had an embargo snafu (code for: one of the reporters that was under embargo conveniently forgot they weren't supposed to post until 2 days from now).

It's got to be an extremely stressful situation that was not of their own making, and I think we could all cut them some slack while they scramble to get everything ready 48 hours earlier than anticipated! :)

You can still use it for that purpose, but only with the iPhone app it seems.

Edit: Actually it's the only feature of the iPhone app that is working. The new calendar view is just "Loading..." (iOS 6 -- my own fault)

I'm the mobile engineer at Cue.

Some very interesting issues with iOS 6. Apple went and implemented a method in NSMutableArray with the same signature as one of my category methods. Hilarity ensued, but also a broken home screen.

I'm actually really thrilled that the try-catch was able to help the app recover correctly.

"Pivot and Expand" is a thing. A real thing real people do when they think they have great technology that needs to be represented to reach a larger audience.

Surprised nobody has mentioned CloudMagic as an alternative to Greplin. Searches are much faster than Greplin and it has native Android Apps and extensions.