The reason I don't think that will happen here is Wit's pricing model - it's completely gratis to use, with the proviso that your commands and associations are public. You cough up cash if want that to remain private.
As long as new users are using Wit, Facebook continues to get value from the product. Closing it down wouldn't gain them much.
- If you have a paying subscription, you won’t be charged again and your instance(s) will remain private.
- Your open instance(s) will remain open
- If you have open instance(s) that you want to make private (for free), please wait for a few days until we roll out this feature.
I'm a paying customer and had plans to pay them significantly more (I am building an app that will be released in a few months that will heavily rely on it). Personally I'd rather see it stay a paid service since I want an SLA and support.
That said, Wit.ai is a great service, the team is friendly and responsive, and I congratulate them.
"The reason I don't think that will happen here is Google Reader's pricing model - it's completely gratis to use, with the proviso that your commands and associations are public... As long as new users are using Reader, Google continues to get value from the product. Closing it down wouldn't gain them much."
Sarcasm aside, companies sometimes put such an emphasis on "focus" that commitments to users of their non-core products end up falling by the wayside.
As long as new users are using Wit, Facebook continues to get value from the product. Closing it down wouldn't gain them much.