> But Google locked down their APIs except for a chosen few pre-approved apps and I never launched. Sad but real. The best way to model this is through risk. A

> But Google locked down their APIs except for a chosen few pre-approved apps and I never launched. Sad but real. The best way to model this is through risk. APIs can't be trusted to exist in the future, so relying on them is a business risk. I really hope proprietary platform APIs and the poorly justified app store companions, all fall under their own weight, at some point, and perhaps from the ashes we will see open standards emerge. One can hope.