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I've written before on this very topic - not building your house / business on other people's platform. How is it possible not to? Do you only write apps for y

by kyllo 11y ago

I've written before on this very topic - not building your house / business on other people's platform. How is it possible not to? Do you only write apps for your own OS or browser that you also wrote? How is writing a "Twitter app" (if that becomes a thing) fundamentally different from writing an iOS app or a Windows app or a Chrome app?

junto 11y ago
That's different. Browsers have standards. What works in one browser, generally works in another. Twitter is a monopoly of Twitter. You can't hot plug your now homeless app into a different version of Twitter.
- kyllo 11y ago
  You can't hot plug your Chrome app into IE or your iOS app into Android either.
  - webmaven 11y ago
    Firefox is implementing a new API for plugging in apps, that is intended to be largely Chrome-compatible though: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Chrome_incompatibilities https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Ch...
- webmaven 11y ago
  You could if Twitter implemented OStatus: http://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/Main_Page http://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/Main_Page