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you laid down an excellent foundation and then just dismissed it on the conclusion.

why does buying parse makes perfect sense for facebook? you already mentioned they are doing fine there, with their little piece of the internet in their app. why would they want to support 60,000 apps that does other things out of their little corner?

....oh, will they bait and switch them? all 60,000 apps forced to login via facebook only next month?



straight off the parse blog:

> Q: Will Parse apps have to use Facebook functionality? No.


Promises made just post acquisition have historically had a low correlation with future events.


Unfortunately that could change in a moment's notice in the future :(


I think Facebook is making a play to take over Android. Buying parse gives them an app platform and something like iCloud but it works.




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