> My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging.

Ignoring the constraint of "email client", has there been any acquisitions where the acquired product got better post-acquisition?

I can think of countless examples where it got worse, but from the top of my head, I can only think of maybe YouTube, but then only in the initial post-purchase period, and same goes for a bunch of other examples. They seem to eventually always turn sour.

Maybe GitHub? But it traded "no new features - no downtime" for "some new features - a lot of downtime" after the Microsoft purchase, so I guess it's very subjective, probably at least some people like that tradeoff.

Arm

Diamond Aircraft

Volvo

Cirrus

All retained their culture and brand and the products keep improving incrementally. Parent companies keep a low profile wrt product.

Volvo owners I know would disagree vehemently

barely off topic, but your comment reminds me of SAAB (which i had and loved) being acquired by GM (which phased it out, after making it bland).

Honestly...true. Even Rapportive (same founder) effectively died post acquisition by linkedin, no?

YouTube. Android. Google maps.

I miss waiting in that large invite queue until you were finally let in, what felt like the first inbox zero proponents and possibly(?) introducing the swiping rows with different actions depending how much you swiped.

And, you could reorder the emails inside your inbox!

> See Dropbox/Mailbox.

And Google/Sparrow.

Really miss Sparrow! To me it was the perfect email client.

Sparrow