I'm of two minds about this. On one side I think it's a very smart service to use. It removes what otherwise might be a ton of work to duplicate. On the other side I think it's a very dumb thing to be bound to.
They certainly free you from their service by allowing an export of your data. But what about all the code written to the API? If at some point in the future you decide you don't want or can't afford Parse - it's nearly a re-write. Unless you abstract their API in an intelligent way. Even then there is some work.
They certainly free you from their service by allowing an export of your data. But what about all the code written to the API? If at some point in the future you decide you don't want or can't afford Parse - it's nearly a re-write. Unless you abstract their API in an intelligent way. Even then there is some work.