I have literally never seen a sensationalist headline like this come true.
But seriously, Parse looks like it could help some people out, and seems to be doing so already, but let's not be ridiculous. When people say that it decreased dev time by 10-100 times, what they really mean is that they added features that otherwise would never have seen the light of day, and they have no idea how long it would have taken had they tried.
There will always be things like this to help build apps, and they will always come with trade-offs. Things may be easier, but slight changes to those things become impossible. Not everyone will think that the trade-off is worth it, and the app industry will chug along as always, if a bit shinier.
I don't think that's true: I've used Parse on several commercial projects where the cost and effort involved in developing internal back-end solutions was significantly more than using Parse. And it wasn't a case of adding in features we weren't going to do: this was implemented core feature sets.
Yes, there are trade-offs, and we still use internal systems and solutions for some of our projects where Parse isn't appropriate. However, I can categorically say it's saved us significant time and money - probably not a factor of ten, but large enough for us to continue looking to use it in the future.
This is why I'm calling it sensationalist. Think about what it would mean for someone to claim 100x faster - if they got it done in a week (and that's pretty damn fast for any decent piece of software, regardless of the environment or scope), they're claiming that they initially budgeted nearly two years. I'm saying that there is no way that ever happened.
Again, I said that there are benefits (and also trade-offs), but that this isn't game-changing. I'm not clear on where we disagree.
Yeah, I've taken that tack "the more sensational the title, the better I'm off reading the commentary to the submission to satisfy my curiosity rather than clicking through the link and rewarding a hypeman/bullshitter."
But seriously, Parse looks like it could help some people out, and seems to be doing so already, but let's not be ridiculous. When people say that it decreased dev time by 10-100 times, what they really mean is that they added features that otherwise would never have seen the light of day, and they have no idea how long it would have taken had they tried.
There will always be things like this to help build apps, and they will always come with trade-offs. Things may be easier, but slight changes to those things become impossible. Not everyone will think that the trade-off is worth it, and the app industry will chug along as always, if a bit shinier.