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Re:Natural Language for Developers by aibottle on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:46AM (#11892820)
Included them because they tend to shut down free services. Google shuts down nearly every service companies they buy offer. They are known for doing so on their very own projects as well. Oh and Apple does this as well, for example when they bought Beats, they shut down the Beats API.
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Re:Natural Language for Developers by stephenr on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:43AM (#11892989)
> Included them because they tend to shut down free services

What Free service has Apple shut down? Their major that's been around for a while is iCloud/etc, which before was MobileMe, which before was .Mac, which before was iTools.

I don't know the technical details of how those back-end services relate to each other (i.e. evolution from one to the next, being rebranded, or re-built from scratch each time, etc) but there are very few things that they've truly shut down.

For a while after MobileMe and before some of the major improvements to iCloud, Keychain sync was not available, but I'm struggling to think of free services they've actually shut down.

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Re:Natural Language for Developers by kartD on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:23AM (#11894114)
Foundation DB http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-data... "Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned.

A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it’s no longer offering downloads of its database software. "

Granted, Apple doesn't acquire at Google's or Facebook's rate, so the sample size is smaller

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Re:Natural Language for Developers by stephenr on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:11PM (#11896469)
Not a service.
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