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Facebook screws over developers because they can. Expect more of it. From lots of other vendors. The reason they screw developers and consumers over is because
by DanielBMarkham 16y ago
Facebook screws over developers because they can. Expect more of it. From lots of other vendors.
The reason they screw developers and consumers over is because of the way we access the internet, using a browser, an URL, and a single-site "visit" metaphor. We are programmers, though. We are free to redefine how we access the internet any time we like. We have created our own prison.
We can do better than this.
- rbarooah 16y agoI agree with you that this doesn't seem to be leading us towards a great utopia. The problem isn't just programmers creating their own prison though - it's about business models. How do we create this seamless brand-free info sphere and still get paid?
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoI agree it is a tough question. But it is a different question than "how did we get here?" which is the question I answered. If we don't know how we got here, or what the nature of the problem is, how can we ever expect to solve it?
- rbarooah 16y agoHistory is a slippery beast. We only understand the past in terms of what we know in the present. To change the future, we have to build it now. If we spend our time trying understand the past before we act, time will have moved on without us.
- otterley 16y agoI don't understand. How can a company that doesn't intermediate the web browsing experience screw developers over if they are free to add a new site to the Web at will? You don't need a relationship with Facebook to run a web site.
- iconicos 16y agoWe can and we are creating a new open platform built entirely on open technologies so it can never become yet another walled garden. IkoniqueOS