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Check out Mobile Identity Connect -> http://www.kinvey.com/blog/3856/mobile-identity-for-the-ente... and http://devcenter.kinvey.com/ios/guides/auth-link-for-ldap

There's a comprehensive list of BaaS providers here -> http://www.kinvey.com/backend-as-a-service

No.

This assumes a pretty full-featured app. I'm curious on how the data was collected

Agree with the final takeaway -- "... know how your application behaves under different failure scenarios. Testing connectivity loss, loss of network services, and other failures are very important when building a high availability application."

ql.io looks powerful. How much time does it take to learn/build the integrations?

I agree. Apart from learning new tech, it also lets you think about ideas that are outside your day job!

Cool post, and nice to see code/visuals for different mobile/web platforms. Can I use the same mechanism to connect to other OAuth services?

Are they really at War?

Interesting. Hugely useful to enable Flexibility and customization of business logic for Backend as a Service platforms. But how do I get my own business logic on the service?