It is very annoying when a startup gets bought like this and shuts down its service in a matter of weeks. If all my photos were there and they'd just down I'd be very annoyed.

I get that they don't care about public opinion now - but it's still very frustrating when this sort of thing happens. It wouldn't kill them to stay open and close registration and then offer automatic migration to the service once it's integrated into Google - the user base gets preserved this way which is another win.