Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Sunrise for iPhone: a next-generation calendar app plugged in to Facebook and Google

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"I looked at my iPhone, and I don’t use any of the default apps anymore," says Pierre Valade. "Instead of Music, I use Spotify, instead of Notes, I use Evernote, and instead of SMS, I use WhatsApp and Kik. All these things are moving to the cloud, and every app is becoming more social." But one app was different. "I looked at Calendar, and thought maybe the same thing was going to happen, but who's going to do it?" Valade asked. Two years passed, and some great apps like Fantastical launched, but none sought to change the way we think about calendars. These apps were intelligent, but they provided no context on the events you have coming up.


Maybe it's because calendars are boring. Google Calendar nor iOS Calendar have changed much in...


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