These projects have NOT been cancelled due to platform changes. @Geko cancelled his to make a point. We communicated reasons why we weren’t able to publish his submissions months ago and he is acting like it is new information. There have only been two people “pull their apps”. They are pulling them because they either don’t have time to support them or want to make money on them in the near or distant future. Anything else that is said is theater,
We have made NO CHANGES to close the system off or limit what people can do. Quite to the contrary we just launched a beta program for Github integration that will facilitate MUCH MORE innovation and sharing amongst developers. We are rolling out rich controls that utilize HTML and CSS to allow much more creativity in the types of solutions (not just SmartApps) that can be created. There are weekly improvements to the IDE.
The future of the platform in not in doubt. SmartThings just needs to create better tools and give more powerful options to 3rd party developers. We are getting there. The size of the Developer Platform Team I am a part of is now nearly the size that our entire company was in May of last year. Our mission is to advocate for the 3rd party developers and help them be the engine of innovation that only they can be.