The Sunrise Calendar app is being pulled from the App Store in the next few days, the development team behind the productivity tool has confirmed. As a consequence of its acquisition by Microsoft last year and a shift in focus towards working on Outlook for iOS and Android, the original app the team worked on will be made unavailable soon, with existing users able to continue using the app until it officially shuts down on August 31.
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acquisition by Microsoft last year was claimed at the time to have cost the software giant at least $100 million, with both Microsoft and Sunrise confirming to users that the app would remain available for the immediate future. The purchase followed after a similar acquisition of
Acompli, an email app Microsoft quickly retooled as Outlook, with the Sunrise team joining them on the project shortly after.
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blog post on the Sunrise website advises the entire team is "now working side-by-side with the Outlook team," and is not able to support or update the Sunrise app. It has taken the decision to pull the app completely, reasoning that one with "no new features, no bug fixes" in the App Store is "the definition of a lousy app and it's not a user experience we want" customers to endure.
Affected users have just over three and a half months to switch to a different calendar app.
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