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Platform owners are the new land users and developers are share croppers. If you develop for a platform, like Apple or Facebook or Twitter, you are basing your
by necrecious 17y ago
Platform owners are the new land users and developers are share croppers.
If you develop for a platform, like Apple or Facebook or Twitter, you are basing your business on the whim of the platform owner.
Every change in development license for Facebook/Apple has killed off some company who got in their way.
Zynga is estimated to be worth $5 billion, but it is running on Facebook. At anytime, Facebook can kill Zynga or force it to pay a large tax to be on their platform. Otherwise, Zynga might have enough money to buy Facebook outright.
So the trick is to be a platform owner, instead of making one off applications.
- pavs 17y agoHow much is facebook worth?
- garply 17y agoIncidentally, if you own a website that is highly dependent on SEO, Google falls into a similar category as Apple, Facebook, or Twitter.
- necrecious 17y agoIf your customer acquisition depends on one source and they control the relationship you have with your customer, you might be screwed. :)