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As the owner of a company, I am more and more afraid to be dependant on Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. because everyday on HN there is a new example proving that t
by IdontRememberIt 6y ago
As the owner of a company, I am more and more afraid to be dependant on Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. because everyday on HN there is a new example proving that they can destroy your business if you are not aligned with their view, their interest or someone in their evaluation team.
I use electricity, water, phone, etc. and I have never been afraid to be cut off by these companies as long as I pay the bills and respect the law.
PS: I am referring to none political cases (especially with app stores) that have been happening the last years.
- DlSGUSTING 6y agoThere's also all those apps being removed from the Apple App Store for being critical of the CCP. Many such cases! People act like this is just being done because people have the wrong politics, but it's a far more pervasive problem than they realise
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- phoobahr 6y agoFunny how the reliable services are regulated utilities and the unreliable ones are byproducts of advertising companies.
- winston_smith 6y agoRegulated utilities have their own failure modes. https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/18/california-has-first-rolling-blackouts-in-19-years-and-everyone-faces-blame-1309757 https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/18/...
- finnthehuman 6y ago>PS: I am referring to none political cases (especially with app stores) that have been happening the last years. It's just plain reliability to worry about your single points of failure. You can be the most unobjectionable, vanilla and milquetoast organization. It's still desirable to avoid the situation where a single irreplaceable vendor can bottleneck you. I think there has been a bit of hesitation to acknowledge it when there's so little friction to getting on desirable platforms. The risk doesn't feel as real.
- IdontRememberIt 6y agoThe SPOF I find hardest to mitigate are payment and App stores. As soon as Visa or Mastercard or Apple or Google reject you. You are gone...