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Anybody that builds an app on a "platform" that can be taken away overnight is a fool. Facebook has made it clear that if they want to change a policy, they co

Anybody that builds an app on a "platform" that can be taken away overnight is a fool. Facebook has made it clear that if they want to change a policy, they could care less about your "business".

tw04 8y ago
So literally everyone using a hosted service of any sort?
- vezycash 8y ago
  Usually the free sort. But even paid hosted services aren't exempt. Amazon competes with sellers on marketplace. And also competes with some of its cloud customers. The key is level of competition or dominance. It's wise to start looking for or creating alternatives when a company has less competition and becomes more dominant. Because if its power reaches a certain point, everyone loses. The company loses cos it won't innovate any more. Customers will lose on many fronts - customer service, features, stability, price, stupid restrictions...
runeb 8y ago
Off topic, but as a non-english native speaker the phrase "could care less" always bothers me as I read it literally to mean someone does indeed care, since they can care less. Is this one of those cases where the meaning changes through actual use like "literally" now meaning not necessarily "to be taken literally"?
- enlyth 8y ago
  No, people just say it incorrectly. It should be 'couldn't care less'.
  - swift532 8y ago
    But if enough people say it incorrectly long enough, it becomes correct, no? Not that I disagree that it hasn't happened yet. I too find it quite annoying when people say they "could care less".
    - sreyaNotfilc 8y ago
      Exactly! It really is suppose to be "couldn't care less". Meaning, that they are at level 0/100 of the caring meter. But as languages go, we tend to move towards an easier way to say the same thing. "could care less" sounds similar, means the same, and that most people associates it with the former phrase.
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- scarface74 8y ago
  It’s the idea of being descriptive instead of prescriptive. Could care less and couldn’t care less are equally correct according to the descriptivist. It’s like when someone says that the enemy was “decimated”. The prescriptivists would say that means they lost 10%. The descriptivists would say they lost a lot.

Anybody that builds an app on a "platform" that can be taken away overnight is a fool. Facebook has made it clear that if they want to change a policy, they could care less about your "business".

tw04 8y ago

So literally everyone using a hosted service of any sort?

vezycash 8y ago
Usually the free sort. But even paid hosted services aren't exempt. Amazon competes with sellers on marketplace. And also competes with some of its cloud customers. The key is level of competition or dominance. It's wise to start looking for or creating alternatives when a company has less competition and becomes more dominant. Because if its power reaches a certain point, everyone loses. The company loses cos it won't innovate any more. Customers will lose on many fronts - customer service, features, stability, price, stupid restrictions...

runeb 8y ago

Off topic, but as a non-english native speaker the phrase "could care less" always bothers me as I read it literally to mean someone does indeed care, since they can care less. Is this one of those cases where the meaning changes through actual use like "literally" now meaning not necessarily "to be taken literally"?

enlyth 8y ago
No, people just say it incorrectly. It should be 'couldn't care less'.
- swift532 8y ago
  But if enough people say it incorrectly long enough, it becomes correct, no? Not that I disagree that it hasn't happened yet. I too find it quite annoying when people say they "could care less".
  - sreyaNotfilc 8y ago
    Exactly! It really is suppose to be "couldn't care less". Meaning, that they are at level 0/100 of the caring meter. But as languages go, we tend to move towards an easier way to say the same thing. "could care less" sounds similar, means the same, and that most people associates it with the former phrase.
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scarface74 8y ago
It’s the idea of being descriptive instead of prescriptive. Could care less and couldn’t care less are equally correct according to the descriptivist. It’s like when someone says that the enemy was “decimated”. The prescriptivists would say that means they lost 10%. The descriptivists would say they lost a lot.