App Maker requires G Suite, which is a paid subscription service ($10/user/month for the "best deal" business tier). Probably they're hoping to grow their G Su

App Maker requires G Suite, which is a paid subscription service ($10/user/month for the "best deal" business tier). Probably they're hoping to grow their G Suite subscription base by offering some more value added services like App Maker. It's not a bad idea. Build your apps quickly and simply using App Maker, and you are then dependent on G Suite. However I do agree that Google has a disappointing track record when it comes to end-of-life-ing interesting products like Web Designer. It's hard to make a business case these days that we should adopt a particular tool that magically builds web sites or marries Java to web, or other such experiments, when it might be orphaned 2-3 years from now. Even if the Goog keeps it on life support, you don't want to be using a platform that has been abandoned by a critical mass of devs -- fewer resources out there to support it, answer questions etc. We'll take a wait-and-see stance on this one.