Raleigh has a history of acquisition, waxing and waning. How much of the app functionality evaporates when the backend servers are shut down? For anyone who sees whiz-bang app features, here are some considerations:

• 85% of the cost of software is maintenance; somewhere in the software engineering leadership chain, this always gets lost
• apps such as these are mining your data, adding to massive data profiles corporations maintain on individuals, share, and sell
• what is the long term support agreement on the software, firmware, and hardware? Parts availability/lead times?