[zeppelin101]

Youtube was about to get destroyed by an avalanche of lawsuits by the TV/movie industry. Without Google's army of lawyers, they would not have lasted.

[josephg]

True. Android might be another example.

But there's also hundreds of examples of the opposite happening: Successful products being bought by a big company and then killed post acquisition.

We probably won't know which camp Pixelmator will fall into for a few years yet.