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3 years to figure out another option isn't enough time for your developer friends? It's not like they're just pulling the rug out from anyone without warning. T

• Klathmon 10y ago
  Seriously. This isn't Google shutting down something out of the blue, this is them shutting down the service 4 years after they announced it would be shut down in 3 years... Does everyone here really expect every company to keep every service running indefinitely?
  • onion2k 10y ago
    Does everyone here really expect every company to keep every service running indefinitely? No, but if a company wants developers to build things on top of those services (or any other service they offer) then they need to make sure it doesn't feel like they might close down a service on a whim. Take Facebook as a counter-example. Their APIs change with irritating frequency, but I've never heard of them shutting anything down. That's not to say they don't, but I'm not of the opinion that there's any danger to my business in building services that reply on Facebook's infrastructure. I can't the same of Google. I know Google shut things down, so I avoid building on Google APIs. To Google's credit the way that they sunset services is very good.
    • realityking 10y ago
      Well, they did shut down Parse. And that was even a paid offering.