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Google To Kill Its Developer Platform Fabric in Mid-2019, Pushes Developers To Firebase (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-road dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On Apple's iPhone day this week, Google announced it is killing Inbox by Gmail. But that's not the only service that day the company confirmed it is shutting down: The mobile app development tool Fabric is also going away. Firebase, Google's mobile and web application development platform, is swallowing Fabric and all its features. Incidentally, both Fabric and Firebase were once separate companies: Google acquired Fabric from Twitter in January 2017 and bought Firebase in October 2014. Now the company is merging the former into the latter, ending support for Fabric in mid-2019.

16 comments

  1. And nothing of value was lost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And nothing of value was lost

    1. Re:And nothing of value was lost by AuMatar · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually Fabric has some really nice tools. But it looks like this is just changing the web interface and location, rather than EOLing actual functionality.

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  2. WHAT A SURPRISE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    /sarcasm

  3. I once considered Firebase... by fishscene · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I once considered firebase. But after looking in to it and discovering there was no way to remove mandatory Google-spying, I dropped it. If there's a way, feel free to reply with a link. :)

    1. Re:I once considered Firebase... by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I once considered firebase. But after looking in to it and discovering there was no way to remove mandatory Google-spying, I dropped it.

      The bigger problem is that there's no way to remove Google-dropping. As soon as you get used to it, they'll kill it. Even if you had a use case where privacy was unimportant, it would still make no sense to use it.

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    2. Re:I once considered Firebase... by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 2

      I once considered firebase. But after looking in to it and discovering there was no way to remove mandatory Google-spying, I dropped it.

      The bigger problem is that there's no way to remove Google-dropping. As soon as you get used to it, they'll kill it. Even if you had a use case where privacy was unimportant, it would still make no sense to use it.

      Sounds like a business opportunity - make an abstraction layer that will let Firebase-using code work with other storage ...

    3. Re: I once considered Firebase... by astrofurter · · Score: 1

      Google's scatterbrained, capricious approach to dropping services is why my company won't even consider GCP. It doesn't matter if their price or features might be a little better than AWS. There's just too much uncertainty and risk.

  4. Google to Kill... by VorpalRodent · · Score: 2

    I'm hoping I'm not the only one who initially misread the headline as "Google to Kill Its Developers".

    I realize that people have given up expecting "Do No Evil", but this is really doubling-down.

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  5. Re:You know what Google should be developing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That sounds like something you should have developed yourself.

    But it appears that you have not.

  6. Dyslexia in adults. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2

    Google To Kill Its Developers On A Fabric Platform in Mid-2019, Pushes Developers To Firebase

    This was almost a really exciting story.

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  7. Why anyone uses google tools is beyond me by Crashmarik · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They never seem to have the slightest compunction at pulling the rug out from under anyone that builds with their tools.

    quick list
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    1. Re: Why anyone uses google tools is beyond me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Googledouches act douchey! News at 11!