Orchestra to be discontinued September 6

[anonnymouse]

Got this in email just now - such a shame. Orchestra was a great to-do app for teams, with easy delegation and syncing across team devices. With this news, I will be deleting Mailbox as well. Kind of a crappy way to sell your current app - by telling people you're ditching one that was just as popular before.

Hello,

Back in September 2012 we announced that we were pausing development on Orchestra To-do to build Mailbox. Since launching Mailbox in February we've been thrilled and overwhelmed by the reception. By all accounts, Mailbox has been a success so far, and we continue to develop it in earnest.

To help us focus, we'll be discontinuing Orchestra To-do and removing the app from the App Store on September 6. If you're still using Orchestra we recommend you copy any tasks that remain on the app and save them elsewhere. After September 6 the app will still launch, but all cloud services including sync, task delegation, access to the web app and customer support will be unavailable.

There's much about Orchestra that we love, and it's hard for us to say goodbye to it. You may feel the same way. But we believe Mailbox offers a simpler and more direct approach to our mission of solving the problem of using email as a to-do list, and it's important that we devote all our resources to Mailbox going forward.

As always, we're grateful to have you with us as we journey to transform how people work together. And if you haven't yet tried Mailbox, you can grab a copy here.

Thanks so much,
Gentry and the Mailbox team

 

[Bear]

Between this and other apps that have been discontinued that mandated the use of the app makers own servers, I think I will avoid apps that require any sync service other than iCloud to be functional.

Note that this doesn't apply to apps that have optional sync services but will remain functional if the sync service goes away.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I don't remember everything about Orchestra, but I'm thinking you can do a whole lot that it offered with an Outlook.com account(s) and the stock iOS Reminders app.