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It is not outdated, but _prescient_. Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (o

by jclulow 11y ago

It is not outdated, but _prescient_. Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (or nigh on impossible) at any time. You may choose to depend on a vendor to an extent, but structure your application in a way that a sudden change in the rules would not be the end of you; e.g., there is more than one cloud provider on which one can use the same Docker images to deploy an application. And you may choose a business where there are no options _other_ than to depend on a third party; e.g., you wish to sell a native iOS application to iPhone users. Risk is still risk: a potential pitfall or peril. Sometimes the risk is great enough, compared with the potential return, that the only way to win is not to play. Regardless, this article discusses a set of risks which exist now more then ever; to enumerate and understand these risks is not outdated thinking, it's just good business.

PhantomGremlin 11y ago
Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (or nigh on impossible) at any time. This applies to so many things involving computers, and of course most aspects of modern life. Back in the good (bad?) old days there were no such things as "personal" computers. We created our programs on punched cards and trudged down to the computer center to run them. And that, to me, was what I hated the most about the computers of the time. I was dependent on the good graces of the University to get a few precious minutes of computer time to use to run my programs. So, when the first usable PCs were invented, people flocked to them. 8K bytes of RAM meant you could run a BASIC interpreter on your own computer. Once you bought it, you could use it as much as you wanted to, for any reason that you wanted to. Period. It's unfortunate that so much of modern computer life once again depends on the good graces of others.

by jclulow 11y ago

PhantomGremlin 11y ago

Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (or nigh on impossible) at any time. This applies to so many things involving computers, and of course most aspects of modern life. Back in the good (bad?) old days there were no such things as "personal" computers. We created our programs on punched cards and trudged down to the computer center to run them. And that, to me, was what I hated the most about the computers of the time. I was dependent on the good graces of the University to get a few precious minutes of computer time to use to run my programs. So, when the first usable PCs were invented, people flocked to them. 8K bytes of RAM meant you could run a BASIC interpreter on your own computer. Once you bought it, you could use it as much as you wanted to, for any reason that you wanted to. Period. It's unfortunate that so much of modern computer life once again depends on the good graces of others.