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Facebook Acquires 'Pulp' and 'Wallet' Developer Acrylic Software
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Yes please
Exactly! So many companies seem to think tying themselves to FB is going to make them successful, when there are many potential customers who never use FB.
And the companies lose their own brand identity and direct customer interaction. Soon they will be just be "that place on Facebook".
But I don't blame the developers for selling out and taking Facebook's cash. Unless they have tied the key employees up in employment contracts as part of the deal, they can take the money and move on. I hope they got cash for the deal, and not just shares of Facebook stock.
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Don't you still use your AOL and Compuserve accounts daily?
CB radios were invaluable and used daily, good buddy. 10-4.
Exactly! So many companies seem to think tying themselves to FB is going to make them successful, when there are many potential customers who never use FB.
And the companies lose their own brand identity and direct customer interaction. Soon they will be just be "that place on Facebook".
But I don't blame the developers for selling out and taking Facebook's cash. Unless they have tied the key employees up in employment contracts as part of the deal, they can take the money and move on. I hope they got cash for the deal, and not just shares of Facebook stock.
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Don't you still use your AOL and Compuserve accounts daily?
CB radios were invaluable and used daily, good buddy. 10-4.
This isn't page 2 news, it's confirmation of a trend - Apple's competitors can't compete, so they are buying up Apple's best developers with cash. It's going to be a big problem for Apple.
I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I tend to agree. Apple developers often have more polished apps and attention to detail. Even their websites show they care and use fancy HTML 5 transitions and large user friendly buttons. Just buying up independent companies is good for the buying company, but gobbles up choice.
Goodbye Acrylic
Sorry, this sell out is kop out, if Google haven't bought the apps what the hell have they paid big bucks for ?
As if FB and the Googlemeister don't own enough of your data.
my data moved to my own database, Wallet is in the bin next to the dead Sparrow.
Sorry, this sell out is kop out, if Google haven't bought the apps what the hell have they paid big bucks for ?
As if FB and the Googlemeister don't own enough of your data.
my data moved to my own database, Wallet is in the bin next to the dead Sparrow.
I just jumped to 1Password (they get the top ratings). Prepare to pay a boatload more. Doesn't import the Wallet data (but does everyone elses data formats), interface blows compared to Wallet. And it's clunky feeling. Not happy. Not happy at all.
-GM
I was weary of buying Pulp, after having bought and used Times for a while. My experience showed a developer with good ideas but bad apps, and little regard for their customers. Little to no fixes or updates and almost no news. Pulp, which is essentially Times 2.0, wasn't offered as an update or anything.
I should have listened to my gut feeling. Pulp is buggy for me under ML and now it seems there won't be any fixes. Oh well, back to Reeder I guess.
I should have listened to my gut feeling. Pulp is buggy for me under ML and now it seems there won't be any fixes. Oh well, back to Reeder I guess.
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Was looking at 1Password too. Problem: Way too expensive, I personally don't like the look, I miss the easiness of Wallet and - the worst thing - it's data fields only make sense in the US, completely useless everywhere else.
I might just code my own Wallet replacement ...
I've been using eWallet since before the iphone came out and it was one of the first apps I got for the iPhone. They also let you synch across icloud (if you trust it) between your iPHone and iPad and they have a Mac app that will synch as well (without iCloud but you pay seperately for the Mac app. I'm too cheap and don't really need it on my mac so I don't). It also supports many different platforms and from the reviews if you change platforms it will synch the information fine (so you don't lose it if you decide to change phone ecosystems and if you have windows you can get it to synch from your iphone on that too).
I'm actually surprised no one has mentioned eWallet. That app has been around longer than the others from what I've seen (as I said, it was around before the iPhone even came out). And I think the interface is pretty good.
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What a bummer
First Sparrow, now Wallet? Two apps in my dock, both killed in a single week? Really disappointing. Especially as in both cases, it didn't so much validate the attractiveness of Mac apps, but just show the need for more engineers to move to behemoths.
First Sparrow, now Wallet? Two apps in my dock, both killed in a single week? Really disappointing. Especially as in both cases, it didn't so much validate the attractiveness of Mac apps, but just show the need for more engineers to move to behemoths.