Google is shutting down a tool for non-programmers to make apps, in a move that shows it's getting more strategic in the cloud wars with Amazon and Microsoft (GOOGL)

· Google is shutting down App Maker — a tool to make it easy for non-programmers to make simple apps — a week after it acquired Seattle-based startup AppSheet. 
· AppSheet and App Maker have some overlap in functionality, and Google is encouraging users to make the switch after App Maker fully shuts down in 2021. Some...