Ask HN: What company was the most affected by Apple's announcements today?

[tptacek]

Measuring in dollars, probably Google; in a bunch of subtle ways (which added up to something unsubtle), Apple cut off UX paths that led to Google searches.

Following that, Dropbox is the next most likely to get hit, but I'd be surprised if iCloud got that much Windows adoptions, or any Android adoption; they'll be fine.

[dwd]

Funny, no one mentioned Microsoft.

It must be a strange state to pass from most feared and hated to irrelevancy.

[rlalwani]

I felt Apple really wants to use the network effects to choke Android. If everything works so well with each other in the Apple ecosystem, it is going to make the life difficult for Android. Steve Jobs wanted to go nuclear on Android but I think Tim is really doing it - calmly.

[toomuchtodo]

I wouldn't say affected per se, but it looks like Apple is treading on Dropbox, Google Voice (SMS/Voice integration), Google itself through the enhanced local client search, Whatsapp (again, SMS/Voice integration), and Evernote/Sketch (mail client markup).

[webmaven]

If Parse hadn't already been acquired by FB, they would have been my pick (CloudKit is obviously a reaction to that acquisition).

[krrishd]

CloudKit definitely seemed like it was taking a bite out of the BaaS market share, considering that it's integrated so closely with the SDK and has quite a generous free tier.

[ShaneOG]

Apple?

[masterj]

http://www.rubymotion.com/ ?

[deedubaya]

Swift is a step in the right direction, but RubyMotion is adding support for Android, which will make it more appealing than Swift.

Also, it's ruby. activate high and mighty language boner now

[rtcoms]

DuckDuckGo in positive manner