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The part that galls me about this is not the shutdown – such is life in a world of cheap acquisitions and expensive maintenance – but the communication around i
by mortenjorck 10y ago
The part that galls me about this is not the shutdown – such is life in a world of cheap acquisitions and expensive maintenance – but the communication around it. For months, as Pixate went without updates, the Pixate team would placate the occasional "is Pixate being abandoned?" threads in the support community with vague reassurances that they were "working on something great."
And so it turns out that regardless of whatever this great thing is, there will be no continuity between Pixate and it, and anyone who relied on Pixate's cloud features will have to find something else in the meantime.
Personally, as I currently have an entire team using Pixate Cloud in the field, and now have less than a month to find, test, implement, and train an alternative, I can't say this experience has left me with much faith in whatever Google comes up with to replace it.
- adrianN 10y agoThat's what you get for relying on a cloud solution...
- overcast 10y agoEssentially this, and my biggest gripe with sending your entire life to these hosted services.
- FussyZeus 10y agoAs fair as this statement is to make, it doesn't make it suck any less. It's a sad state of affairs where this is commonplace enough. The Cloud was supposed to FIX the problem of mobile computing, not exasperate it.
- habitue 10y ago*exacerbate
- Grishnakh 10y agoYep, I'm really wondering exactly how many decades or centuries it'll finally take for people to understand the value of open-source/Free software. All I see is people bitching and complaining about how various proprietary solutions and services are failing them when they get the rug pulled out from under them: Windows 10 updates borks their computer or adds spyware or advertising, Google shuts down yet another service, some cloud service has terrible security or has a huge outage leaving their business unable to operate, etc. It's simple: if you don't control your own software and infrastructure, you have no control over your destiny and are at the whim of some other entity.