Congrats, by the way!! Hope you’re feeling really awesome.

I totally agree with this post, but one thing I feel overlooked…

I don’t know what Google offered but I would bet the Sparrow developers were calculating that offer in numbers of licenses they would need to sell to match that.
I suspect the musings that they were not as succesfull as they could have been was true. But that’s in part their fault – most of us would have paid more for their app. But most importantly, they already had a payout from their customers. What they got from Google was a bonus to that.