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Microsoft To Shut Down Wunderlist, an App It Acquired Two Years Ago, In Favor Of Homegrown App To-Do (techcrunch.com)
From a report on TechCrunch: Microsoft acquired the popular mobile to do list application Wunderlist back in 2015, and now it's preparing users for its eventual demise with the release of its new application "To-Do," it announced this week. The new app was built by the team behind Wunderlist, and will bring in the favorite elements of that app in the months ahead, Microsoft insists. The company also added that it won't shut down Wunderlist until it's confident that it has "incorporated the best of Wunderlist into To-Do." In case you're hoping Wunderlist will get some sort of reprieve, Microsoft makes its forthcoming demise pretty clear. Stating its plans in black-and-white: "we will retire Wunderlist," it says in a blog post. In the meantime, Microsoft is encouraging Wunderlist users to make the switch by offering an importer that will bring in your lists and to-dos from Wunderlist into To-Do, where those items will now be available in other Microsoft products, like Exchange and Outlook.
An "app" for a to-do list? Can't you use a simple text file for that? LUDITES!
[x] Insult the users of to-do-list app users
1. Write pointless App
2. Get bought out by M$
3. Get paid to rewrite pointless App for M$
4. Profit
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
I had used Wunderlist on and off for a bit to be able to get a visual of what needed done and help prioritize things I needed to accomplish. Once Wunderlist was bought I just uninstalled and said good bye as I knew it wouldn't last or would end up needing dependencies that I didn't want to install (i.e: become part of office).
Now I just vi a text file on a server that I can access via the internet.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but 3 lefts do - Lew of GO magazine
Microsoft... bought a company... to program a ToDo list...
Microsoft spent upwards of 100 million dollars... to get a ToDo list app...
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6...
Microsoft has this product called Outlook that, at one time, had a ToDo list built in...
Microsoft built Outlook to compete with Lotus Notes which had... a ToDo list built in...
Microsoft already HAS ToDo list functionality in their OneNote product - designed for the Windows 10 ecosystem and is already cloud based.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why MBAs SUCK! "I need a ToDo list app to fulfill market segment XJ27- go buy this popular one and integrate it with Windows 10", "But sir we have a ToDo list app built into our OneNote product"
"Don't be a fool - that's for taking notes, not a ToDo list app. Apps are appy apps."
"But you told us to get rid of the ToDo list in Outlook to cut costs on developers?!"
"Don't bother me with trivialities."
Wunderlist is popular having a large number of users. They bought it for the users not the app. If Microsoft can convert many of them to Office they win.
Microsoft can kiss my big hairy ass too. I love Wunderlist, but I'll be looking for alternatives. I have seen the shit they pass off as software these days and I want no part of their ideas. The last thing I want is to spend time migrating to some Microsoft abortion only to have them "Windows 10 it" after I start depending on it. Fuck that shit and fuck you Microsoft.
The app is on your device. A copy of the data is on your device.
The server where the app synchronizes the data is a major value proposition (for most users). The server means that if your device is lost, stolen, broken, or simply replaced because you want (and bought) a new one you can retrieve your data on your new device. If you have more than one device (phone+tablet+computer) you can access your data from any of them and it synchronizes with the others.
Of course, the drawback to this arrangement is the need for that service provider to continue providing the service. (the same occurred with Yahoo buying and discontinuing Astrid a few years ago)
I would like to operate my own server, but most developers don't offer that since most users know nothing of how networking or data works. They think their data is "in" the app and are now confused when a program asks where they want to save or open a file containing the data.
I wonder what their "new and improved replacement" for LinkedIn will look like.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
The wife and I use Wunderlist to stay on top of things. The shared feature of it is actually really nice. We run out of something, add it to the groceries list and whomever does the shopping next knows what to get.
And before anyone says "how 'bout you two talk"... It's hard to keep everything straight with 2 busy kid schedules too.
(don't talk back)
They can take my LifeAlert pendant when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
And that is all I have to say.
This sucks, but I'll have to search a decent open-source app for to do lists.
In the meantime, I'll probably use Keep, by the other Great Satan.
Oh, and F* you Microsoft.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
This is why I won't use any app where I don't own the data. It doesn't matter where the software lives or runs, as soon as it phones home with my data then I don't control anything.
I can't say it strongly enough, or often enough... say no to anyone else controlling your data. It is not a matter of if, but when that party decided to do something with it that impacts you negatively. Whether that's something to do with the data itself, or simply leveraging the fact that their servers are required to compel you to to do what they want (stop using an app, switch apps, upgrade, etc).
ToDoist may be a good replacement for some people. I moved from Wunderlist to Todoist about 6 months ago.
Error reading device 'Signature'. (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail?