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Given the very lucrative and competitive mobile market space, we will likely to see tremendous updates in the Android platform if Google have acquired it.

At least Facebook won't be biased about what mobile platform to support, it can support all other platforms without focusing on specific Android.

I use Parse as my backend for my iOS apps and it is absolutely useful. They provided a great service and the mPaAS approach to developing and managing mobile apps data and services is revolutionary.



That's not really fair. Google seem to work very hard to provide a first class iOS experience on their own services. No reason to assume they'd shut that down on something they acquired.


Well,

1. They shut down their acquired companies and their products on many occasions that many people are dependent upon

2. They shut down a handful of Google tools many people are dependent upon

3. They even close people's Google accounts.

Use their service, yes, but trust them after all of this dents they made? maybe.

The weight of their actions is so great, I can't even begin to talk about matters in relation to trust on their side. It's just _hard_.

I'm glad Facebook acquired Parse.


Oh, this. Shutting down services is different to restricting services to your own platform. Perhaps you have a point, perhaps Google would hypothetically have decided to shut down Parse had they acquired it, but it's not fair to suggest they'd have limited it to Android.


Doesn't make business sense to ignore the scores using iOS.


If it drives users away from iOS then it does. Apple is the biggest threat to google.


I disagree. Google is probably the biggest threat to Apple, and Apple is probably the biggest threat to Android, but not to Google. Apple has essentially no web presence, companies that do are a much bigger existential threat to Google.




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