When Google bought Bump which got them the popular data sharing app Bump and the popular photo-sharing app Flock, the CEO of Bump Dave Lieb told users to “stay tuned for future updates.” Yesterday, this blog post from Bump killed any hopes for any further updates:
We are now deeply focused on our new projects within Google, and we’ve decided to discontinue Bump and Flock. On January 31, 2014, Bump and Flock will be removed from the App Store and Google Play. After this date, neither app will work, and all user data will be deleted.
Thus if you have these two apps, you should open them up and follow the instructions that pop up to download your data. I did yesterday along with deleting Bump from my iPhone. That’s sad as I really found it useful for moving things from my iPhone to PC or Mac or another iPhone simply by tapping the two devices together. Now iOS 7 does have AirDrop, but it only works with other iOS 7 devices. Thus Bump was really useful to me. Expect the features that Bump and Flock brought to the table to end up in a future version of Android…. Assuming they ever see the light of day again. Just ask users of the Sparrow Mail app. It was acquired by Google and except for bug fixes, nothing much has been done with it. Not even integrate it’s cooler features into Gmail.
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Bump And Flock Bumped Off By Google
When Google bought Bump which got them the popular data sharing app Bump and the popular photo-sharing app Flock, the CEO of Bump Dave Lieb told users to “stay tuned for future updates.” Yesterday, this blog post from Bump killed any hopes for any further updates:
We are now deeply focused on our new projects within Google, and we’ve decided to discontinue Bump and Flock. On January 31, 2014, Bump and Flock will be removed from the App Store and Google Play. After this date, neither app will work, and all user data will be deleted.
Thus if you have these two apps, you should open them up and follow the instructions that pop up to download your data. I did yesterday along with deleting Bump from my iPhone. That’s sad as I really found it useful for moving things from my iPhone to PC or Mac or another iPhone simply by tapping the two devices together. Now iOS 7 does have AirDrop, but it only works with other iOS 7 devices. Thus Bump was really useful to me. Expect the features that Bump and Flock brought to the table to end up in a future version of Android…. Assuming they ever see the light of day again. Just ask users of the Sparrow Mail app. It was acquired by Google and except for bug fixes, nothing much has been done with it. Not even integrate it’s cooler features into Gmail.
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