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There's no way to entirely avoid platform risk, unless you're running your app off the grid, on a boat in international waters, using your own hardware, getting
by satyrnein 6y ago
There's no way to entirely avoid platform risk, unless you're running your app off the grid, on a boat in international waters, using your own hardware, getting online via multiple satellite providers, and taking payments only via Bitcoin.
Otherwise, it's about trying to decide what risks are reasonable, and doing what little you can to influence each platform's behavior toward you, which is what Basecamp is doing.
- dcwca 6y agoWeb apps are pretty risk free in this sense. Nobody controls the web.
- ryanbrunner 6y agoSure, but the platforms can still go out of their way to make it infeasible to build on the web - There's no way that Hey could have been a web app on iOS since Safari refuses to support a lot of functionality that would bring web apps to parity with native ones.