2 months is not enough time for people to find alternative solutions.
I think Buddybuild was the only service with a free tier. For folks that aggressive bootstrappers (like myself), it's just another nuisance. And even for people who were paying -- they are still as equally as disrupted.
1. Vertically integrated
2. Horizontally integrated
3. Conglomeration (not integrated)
And there is a "strategy tax" in whatever method you choose.
Except for FileMaker and Beats, Apple is mostly a vertically integrated company. They have no real desire to be everything to everyone like Google. If they didn't play to their strengths and tried to service Android users, it still wouldn't be a great experience.
I have no problem with Apple deciding to abandon BB on Android. It would indeed make very little sense for them to continue to support this platform.
What I am complaining about is the shut off date, it is very close.
Where did this dumb meme come from? First of all, FoundationDB was not a service, so there was nothing to "shut down".
It's true we stopped selling the product to new customers, and we no longer offered free downloads under the community license. However those with existing licenses were able to continue running the product (and in fact some of them do to this very day).
What's more, the Community License was explicitly written to be valid in perpetuity, precisely to protect customers in this sort of instance.
Many people were disappointed by the way Apple handled the acquisition, including me incidentally, but your comment is mostly FUD. If you really were doing consulting for us, then I'd expect slightly better treatment of a former customer.
1) Apple--who I assume made the decision to end the service abruptly--was not my client.
2) I'm making objective statements. I'm not making a judgement of whether it was smart, foolish, fair, unfair, etc. Actually I was very happy for the FDB team and stay in touch with some of them.