Wunderlist’s Buy-Back Won’t Work, Here’s Why?

Christian Reber’s attempt to buy back probably won’t work…

Let’s set the scene. It’s 2019.

Microsoft now owns Wunderlist, purchased back in 2015, the application and team have been squeezed into their new application Microsoft To-Do.

Microsoft To-Do on their release, in 2017, share they will be sunsetting Wunderlist. 2 years later. No sunset has occurred.

Christian Reber offers to buy back Wunderlist from Microsoft in an effort to save the soon-to-be shutdown application. Insert tweet.

So Francesco, tell us, why won’t it work?

Whilst I love the idea. Microsoft are very unlikely to hand back control of Wunderlist to Reber for a…