Let us hope. But what ends up happening in a big company is that their is tighter coupling between concerns, which locally looks like interference. At the very least it increases the resistance to iteration, and diffuses focus. Psychologically, I think it's also extremely difficult to go from being self-directed to manager-directed. That can build a lot of resentment that comes out in funny ways, like quitting.
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.
Yep, 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.
I've yet to have ever heard of any of the companies in the daily "this startup is shuttering its service" posts. The spectrum of reactions always amuses me.
Ah, that's better than another recent tool company that was aquihired/shutdown - WagonHQ, which was also Atom based, but downloaded the core of the app when you started it up.
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I think that signals I should get back to work.
Off to call my eye-guy, may be time for new glasses. :-)
That seems like an odd choice.
Google seems intent on building a good design tool, I hope that we will finally have a design tool for the adaptative UI era.
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.
The Cloud was supposed to FIX the problem of mobile computing, not exasperate it.
Well, that explains it.