Microsoft Will Shut Down To-do App Wunderlist on May 6 (engadget.com) 14
Over two and a half years after Microsoft said it'd one day kill to-do service Wunderlist in favor of its own To Do app, it has revealed when it'll drop the ax: May 6th. From a report: After that time, Wunderlist's to-do lists won't sync anymore and you'll have a limited time to export lists from there into To Do. As of today, Microsoft won't accept any more sign-ups for Wunderlist. Microsoft bought Wunderlist creator 6Wunderkinder in 2015 and announced To Do (or To-Do, as it was known then) in April 2017. It launched a redesigned version of To Do in September, which brought the service closer in line with Wunderlist's feature set while deepening its integration with several Microsoft services, including Outlook, Microsoft Planner and Cortana. Further reading: Wunderlist Founder Wants To Buy His App Back.
Wunderlist founder wants to buy his App back (Score:2)
Is he willing to pay the same price Microsoft paid him for it?
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Why should he? It's clearly worth less to Microsoft now than when they bought it.
RIP (Score:2)
Wunderlist was amazing in the late 2000s. My wife and I used it extensively for everything (home projects, grocery shopping, christmas lists) before we moved to Trello for kanban.
Wot? (Score:2)
First, the Kzinti conquest forces occupy Wunderland and now this?
Such a shame. Still use it. Love it. (Score:2)
Wunderlist is a very neat and very well put together Web app. It's a shame Mickeysuck wants to shut it down. I'd like to develop an open source alternative.... Might actually do.
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I've been looking for a self-hostable, clean, to-do app that my wife would be happy using for a while. For now, we keep using Color-note 2 on android because it works well enough. I'd happily give something you make an extended try!
Google owns this particular monopoly (Score:3)
Really this is all very frustrating that OS features like 'adding a task to a todo list' don't use open interfaces so we can choose the app(lication) of our own choosing.
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Software companies don't care about your frustration, only that you keep buying their stuff. And if you could take your todo list to somebody else's software, you might not keep buying their stuff.
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But of course pikaGOO is the only one available.
It's just like M$ decades ago -- hidden API interfaces that only "correct" products can use. "DOS isn't done until Lotus doesn't run." Also, Link [slashdot.org]
Open APIs? Why sure, until there's an advantage for us. And then they're not "not open", they're just "undocumented."
(Crap, am I really that cynical? Guess so.)
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everyone who gets into bed with Microsoft... (Score:2)
...gets fucked. She's a whore like that, always has been. You can't make a deal with MS without getting screwed.
Wunderlist once was the #1 ToDo (and more) list app. Now they kill it because "not invented here".
Still the same old Microsoft.
But muh cloud! (Score:2)
If only someone could come up with a sort of decentralized API where all the resources you need to run your software reside on the end user's computer and as such, cannot be shut down by some corporate overlord.
I know, I'm a dreamer... If such impossible things could exist, we would have come up with them much earlier, like in the 1970s.