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It's refreshing to see a company getting acquired and instead of shutting down they double down on their product/service. Congratulations to the Pixate team!
You might want to read ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com. Usually this kind of announcement is followed by another one, 9 months-2 years later, of the service being shut down. This is just the first step of that pattern again.
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Your comment made me realize i can't remember seeing promising medium or small size companies merge and make this kind of announcement. I mean, you could very well see this kind of company merge with people doing an advanced IDE, or even corporate frameworks. Maybe they usually prefer to create commercial partnerships rather than merge shares.
Buying a smaller company gives the owners control over a resource. Merging with a similar sized company means relinquishing control for no immediate return.
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Looks promising. Can't find any reviews/blog posts of using it. Do you have any example apps that were made using neonto?
We're still pretty thin on that front. The public beta was released earlier this year and the feature set has been in flux. Most of the pilot customers have been building just prototypes. Below are some iOS apps that were released on the App Store. These were 100% exported from Neonto Studio (that is, the entire app was created visually, and no manual modifications were made to the exported Xcode projects). MyMotto -…
And as someone else asked, only OS X? is a windows or linux port on the roadmap sometimes soon?
Here's why I (and jawngee) never used Pixate's products for my apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062868 Given that I only make iOS apps, and that Google acquired them, I feel vindicated 916 days later.
Here's why I (and jawngee) never used Pixate's products for my apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062868 Given that I only make iOS apps, and that Google acquired them, I feel vindicated 916 days later.
I wonder if they would have been acquired by Google if they had open sourced their software. Don't get me wrong - I completely understand your decision.
The software [0] he complained about not having source in the old post he points to was open sourced before Google bought them. So, evidently, it wouldn't have stopped Google.
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Funny how everybody is "excited", "delighted" and "ecstatic" about being acquired by a mega corporate.
Your comment made me realize i can't remember seeing promising medium or small size companies merge and make this kind of announcement. I mean, you could very well see this kind of company merge with people doing an advanced IDE, or even corporate frameworks. Maybe they usually prefer to create commercial partnerships rather than merge shares.
Small and medium sized companies merge all the time (but its rarely big news, because small companies), but "promising" ones in the Silicon Valley swing-for-the-fences startup sense probably don't as much, probably because that kind of merger doesn't provide the kind of exit startup investors are looking for or increase the perceived likely size of the eventual exit enough to warrant the dilution.
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You might want to read ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com. Usually this kind of announcement is followed by another one, 9 months-2 years later, of the service being shut down. This is just the first step of that pattern again.
There is also the announcement that the people who started this company quit Google because they couldn't get anything done there and now they have a new startup...
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You might want to read ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com. Usually this kind of announcement is followed by another one, 9 months-2 years later, of the service being shut down. This is just the first step of that pattern again.
Funny how everybody is "excited", "delighted" and "ecstatic" about being acquired by a mega corporate.
Here's why I (and jawngee) never used Pixate's products for my apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062868 Given that I only make iOS apps, and that Google acquired them, I feel vindicated 916 days later.
Wait, but the thing that you wouldn't use 916 days ago was released as open source a while ago. How is your "I won't use your products because they are just binary blobs and I demand source" vindicated by Google acquiring Pixate after that?
Today is literally the first time I've ever heard that this project was open sourced.
