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When a company builds its product to tightly integrate with another company's product, I always feel like asking: - What will you do if the other company decid
by dsr_ 7y ago
When a company builds its product to tightly integrate with another company's product, I always feel like asking:
- What will you do if the other company decides to change the way it looks/acts/feels without consulting you?
- What will you do if the other company decides to take active measures to stop you hijacking their product?
- What will you do if the other company decides that you've got some great ideas and they will implement those features themselves?
It doesn't actually matter what the answers are to those questions, because they all boil down to the same result for the customer: someday this is going to stop working, so I had better not rely on it even if it does seem to be shiny and useful right now.
- AznHisoka 7y agoAs if they don't have to worry about... this is a Chrome extension you have to download in the Google Chrome Store. So if Google doesn't like it, they don't have to obfuscate the Gmail HTML/design, or send them a cease or desist... they simply can remove it from the Chrome Store.