title: Is Google deprecating beacon service? Their announcement is ambiguous
body: <p>I saw a statement that Google is ending their beacon service</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>On December 6th we will stop delivering both Eddystone and Physical
    Web beacon notifications. You will still continue to have access to
    the beacon dashboard and can deliver proximity based experiences
    similar to Nearby Notifications via your own apps using our Proximity
    Beacons API.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But then at the same time they say </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The Proximity Beacon API is a part of the Bluetooth low energy (BLE)
    beacon platform, which also includes Eddystone, an open beacon format
    from Google.  End users should stop encountering Nearby Notifications
    in early December when Google stops delivering Eddystone and Physical
    Web beacon notifications. Third-party developers can still send nearby
    alerts inside their apps with the Proximity Beacons API, but it will
    no longer be a pervasive system-level functionality.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Can someone interpret what this means for us who are coding beacons Android apps?</p>
  
  <p>Does this mean that at some point, a beacon app will stop working as a device will not be able to receive signals from the beacon device?</p>