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why would you build your livelihood as a 3rd party app this day in age dependent on another company? This story of companies changing policies is nothing new,
by taude 3y ago
why would you build your livelihood as a 3rd party app this day in age dependent on another company?
This story of companies changing policies is nothing new, and a obvious risk if you pursue this type of business dependent upon other peoples platforms. Companies yanking access to data/api usage/changing terms for farmville games/changing ad words terms/etc. has been going on since the internet was commercialized in the 90s.
People who did make money off apps like this, should call it a good run for a few years and move on to the next thing.
- steviedotboston 3y ago>People who did make money off apps like this, should call it a good run for a few years and move on to the next thing. That seems to be what is happening, but Reddit shouldn't be given a free pass. They could have handled this much better. They announced drastically higher API fees with no warning or grace period. It was extremely sudden and extremely steep.
- riskable 3y ago> why would you build your livelihood as a 3rd party app this day in age dependent on another company? Every 3rd party app that exists is dependent on another company (e.g. Google and Apple).