There mission must be copying Google killing perfectly good products.
They’ve just done the same with a calendar app that I forget the name of. They then rereleased it under their own brand.
They appear to be on an unspoken mission to challenge Google’s suite of apps, so I’d hazard a guess that email tech is a part of that puzzle (along with calendar)
netburnr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
kautau@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Most likely with the goal of getting acquired by Google or MS or something. Exit strategies eating exit strategies
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Cron. They didn’t shut it down though, they just suddenly transitioned it. I’d just started using Cron when they did it and it was very unexpected for me.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean that sounds pretty reasonable, could they just not think of a name that wasn’t already in prevalent use? Was the goal to be unsearchable for anyone trying to find it?
That’s like creating a reminders app and naming it task manager.
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
They renamed it Notion calendar, but Cron had pretty solid SEO. I much preferred its old name and theme.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well that’s great for them, but that also means that people searching for the cron that has had that name for 50 years are going to get irrelevant results for a calendar app.
sugartits@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Or a spreadsheet program and calling it Excel.
Or outlook, access…
The name doesn’t matter if you can establish it.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No, their point isn’t that it’s a weird name that doesn’t line up with what the product does, their point is that cron is an already existing bit of software that does something else.
It’d be like if MS made a notes app called Steam or Google called a new camera app iTunes.
Minus the trademark infringement I guess.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s the one, and you’re right, it is currently a rebrand but ultimately the same product.
I think having separate apps is the wrong way to go for their “integrate everything in one place” philosophy, over the longer term. I’m eager to see what they do with it next.