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The dominos are really falling quick. Apollo, RIF, and Sync all in the last few hours. That spez AMA tomorrow is gonna be spicy
What caused them to announce the closures so close together?
I would think it is partly the hard deadline of api access being changed mixed with seeing other apps already announcing closing. I would think it is just a, "Well, will have to do it sometime and this is as good of a time as any."
Per speculation on my part though.
@mrcory sounds in the right ballpark imo.
I think them declaring this early also does a couple other things: