Context: was looking for a decent service to give me a calendar a little while back but one thing that kept stopping me is there seems to be absolutely no service that just offers you a nice calendar, its only email services that happen to offer a calendar on the side.
I don't want another email. I have enough, and my current one is tied down to gmail (but I'd prefer if my calendar wasn't).
I'm sure there must a historical reason for this, but also why is does it still persevere?
One is a scheduling and time management thing, the other a communication system. I don't need to sign up for a messaging app to have a todo list.
That could work with any messaging service or app though. You just need some apis.
and all they have to do is update their contacts. People can use Hotmail or Gmail or Microsoft or self-hosted email, and integrate whatever calendar they like alongside it.
But well, that's kinda the problem that spurred this question though, you can't, because there are no independent calendar or email apps. If I use Gmail but want to dump Google calendar, too bad for me I guess.