Particularly that last piece because it opens up the market to be commoditized. The secret sauce of getting a web-based viewer of a remote iPhone Simulator session is now available for anyone. And now a bunch of competing services will likely pop up (because all the hard work is done) and that means a price war. The consumers of these services are ultimately the big winner.
I hope more deals like this happen.
A genuine question: Since this is essentially a talent acquisition, why doesn't someone else continue running the product? or perhaps sell it off to another company?
And Alex, just checked out Bitgym - great idea. Will be trying it next time I'm on the treadmill!
"This is an important milestone for Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all" [1]