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This is a known risk with PayPal... so many similar stories. However, it's also a risk with Google and Facebook. I'm not sure if Apple and Microsoft are as ba
by blunte 8y ago
This is a known risk with PayPal... so many similar stories.
However, it's also a risk with Google and Facebook. I'm not sure if Apple and Microsoft are as bad.
One must assume that some automated systems are involved in these terminations because no reasonable human would slam the door and refuse any attempts of discussion or reconciliation.
Short of getting some significant press (here on HN where there are staff from each of these companies), one's chances of getting a termination resolved reasonably is practically nil.
The problem I see is that these companies have become so large and have acquired such relative monopoly positions that they can afford to lose/screw some customers because it's cheaper expense-wise than managing human staff to resolve these issues. That's not reasonable.
PayPal has much less of a monopoly position than Google, Facebook, and Apple do (because of the two app stores and the center-of-all-social). We know better than the use or depend on PayPal, but we have no choice but to depend on Google (Android) and Apple.
I really was hoping that React Native and other webbish technologies would kill the mobile "app" system and return the power to the people who actually create things. So far it doesn't seem to be working that way.