&gt;We’re proud that we’ve been able to help so many of you build great mobile apps, but we need to focus our resources elsewhere.<p>I read this as &quot;our Facebook overlords have decided that our revenue&#x2F;head can be dramatically increased if redeployed on a different part of the overall company, so they have decided to shut Parse down and move us elsewhere.&quot;<p>Which is a perfectly fair business decision but this is really sad to see since I saw the Parse acquisition as a beacon for platform companies being able to run independently post acquisition. :(