It's certainly reduced my goodwill towards the company and platform, both as a developer and a consumer. I won't use the Twitter API. Same goes for Etsy - if yo

It's certainly reduced my goodwill towards the company and platform, both as a developer and a consumer. I won't use the Twitter API. Same goes for Etsy - if you check out the mailing list, as small as it is there's some serious discontent there. No coincidence some of the same people are involved in those two companies. Twitter, Fred Wilson et al. appear to have made a calculation that keeping developers on their good side was not as important as their other plans. I don't think a wealth of Google+ apps is going to make or break the service, but it doesn't hurt. I'd certainly consider writing apps based on G+. I can picture the API being a lot more stable and professionally managed than Facebook's API, too.