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This feels like a threat. Are they going to graveyard Google cloud? Probably not. But they've discontinued so many random, good services that I'm cautious to 'learn' a new Google tool. I wouldn't want to invest in a product only to be forced to transition to AWS in 3 years. Might as well just skip to AWS.

Tina and Bubble.io have no overlap in terms of intended market. And Tina isn't even remotely 'Wordpress-style'. The idea is that you -- a developer -- already have a beautifully coded, optimized website/webapp. All you want to do is provide an interface so non-devs can edit content, and that's what Tina provides. It's an open source toolkit for providing an editing UI. It's not a CMS or 'walled garden' tool that you build your site/app inside, nor is it yet another wordpress clone.

Okay, sure. But this doesn't solve any of those issues. If anything it compounds them.

I really don't think Steampunk is tied to the iPhone in any way. "steampunk was a cultural response to the ultimate technological zeitgeist, the iPhone" is a pretty bold claim.

What, one that's completely unproven with no customers or product? Seems like an odd choice for Apple, but I'd like to hear your argument.

Has that not been in Apple's playbook for years? Those in the industry know the $5k monitor is a good deal and they also know they don't need the stand (get the VESA adaptor) since they already probably have a multi-monitor stand. So for their actual target audience no one will bat an eye. But for those of us not interested in an expensive monitor the overpriced stand gives us something to talk about and keeps them in the news cycle.