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Re:Grammarly acquires Superhuman by diggan on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:53AM (#44434483)
> 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.

Re:Grammarly acquires Superhuman by gghffguhvc on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:50AM (#44435142)
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.

Re:Grammarly acquires Superhuman by pickledoyster on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @12:10PM (#44435363)
Volvo owners I know would disagree vehemently
Re:Grammarly acquires Superhuman by jjtheblunt on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @02:17PM (#44436665)
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).
Re:Grammarly acquires Superhuman by atlantacrackers on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:59AM (#44434554)
Honestly...true. Even Rapportive (same founder) effectively died post acquisition by linkedin, no?
Re:Grammarly acquires Superhuman by hiddencost on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:04AM (#44434635)
YouTube. Android. Google maps.