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Actually, Yahoo has been a pretty developer-friendly company - for a while the geocoding service had less restrictive TOS than Google's; Pipes is pretty nifty;
by kgrin 16y ago
Actually, Yahoo has been a pretty developer-friendly company - for a while the geocoding service had less restrictive TOS than Google's; Pipes is pretty nifty; YUI, while a bit too verbose for my taste, is very well-designed; and of course, Douglas Crockford, the father of JSON, works at Yahoo.
This doesn't obviate OP's point - that closing a bunch of services makes developers less inclined to build on your platform. But I'm not sold on the idea that this will irrevocably alienate developers.
Besides, as Apple proves every day, developers can hate your guts but still jump on cue if the platform is good enough.
- dannyr 16y ago"Besides, as Apple proves every day, developers can hate your guts but still jump on cue if the platform is good enough." It's not about being good. If it is, developers would be all over the WebOS platform. It's because the App Store still generates the most revenue for most developers.
- chrisaycock 16y agoRight, it's the distribution. Desktop developers have been willing to shell-out a lot for Visual Studio because they needed to build Windows applications for wide adoption.
- Raphael 16y agoThat makes it all the more tragic. They hold so much potential to be a great technology company with such programming talent, but the executives constantly shy away from it, apparently searching for profits in less technical avenues. #2 in search? Better quit. #1 in bookmarking! Pull the plug. Yahoo even had the most visitors in the world at one time. And the millions of eyeballs are treated to vanilla news and email for a decade plus.
- grayrest 16y ago> YUI, while a bit too verbose for my taste, is very well-designed YUI2 or 3? I hated 2 but I think 3 is the best general purpose JS library out there. It works particularly well in coffeescript.