Okay, so perhaps it’s not a lie, but there are still too many red flags, all of which could have easily been avoided with some proactive communication.
All we know is that the entity that bought Bartender is backed by a venture capital fund with a poor track record of handling such acquisitions and some poor-quality apps out there, and that their focus is not app development but increasing sales for existing apps. If they are a small team of developers, there’d be no better time for them to introduce themselves than now.
These folks, with their disastrously handled acquisition and communication, not to go through all of that again, make Bending Spoons look good.