It’s my personal belief that the best apps, or even the best products, come from people who build things for themselves. Steve Jobs, a role model of Leca’s, always believed that if you build a great product, the buyers will come in droves. And they did. Sparrow has made hundreds of thousands of dollars because the team built something they believed was “right,” and something that looked fantastic. The company had just about the entire world waiting in anticipation of its iPad app, which has little chance of seeing the light of day.

‘Sent with Sparrow,’ no more

Ellis Hamburger on today’s Google acquisition.