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Of course they should be concerned. They should be concerned that their entire business model exists on the whims of a single company and proprietary technology
by flukus 10y ago
Of course they should be concerned. They should be concerned that their entire business model exists on the whims of a single company and proprietary technology stack. They were happy to live in ignorance of this problem for years and are now living with the consequences of that.
- falcolas 10y agoThis describes every programmer who writes code for Apple, Windows, or even AWS, and a good portion of professional musicians, writers, songwriters, lawyers, etc. A lot of creative professions are tied into a single point of failure, but what choice do they really have? Where else can a video content creator make a living wage? Or is your suggestion that they find a different job?
- smichel17 10y agoSomething something this is why we need snowdrift.coop
- flukus 10y agoMicrosoft and apple could disappear tomorrow and it would have zero immediate effect. It is an example of how regressive the app store model is and why we should have never allowed it. As for what can be done about it, everything from hosting on multiple sites to self hosting so that you can't be censored by a corporate entity. And yes, it's an example of why centralizing services on something like AWS is a terrible idea. But that's too hard, easier to just cry louder and continue to enable the behavior.