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Milk. The whole point of Milk is to pump out lots of ideas (and hope one sticks). It would be against their mission statement to keep Oinking.

• unreal37 15y ago
  So as a consumer, why would anyone ever even try Milk's products until they clearly become viable? You are being asked to give tons of your time and energy to build out their product (user generated content), recommend it to your friends, and do their word of mouth marketing, and in return the company has no loyalty to you unless its spectacularly successful. And in contrast to the Milk model, you have sites like Delicious, Flickr, and even Digg itself which still operate even after the original founders have moved on.
  • speg 15y ago
    Oink was free, so why not?
    • binarysolo 15y ago
      Opportunity cost of time.
    • findel 15y ago
      Because our time is not?
  • ianterrell 15y ago
    What percentage of Oink users knew Milk's philosophy? What percentage of them cared? More to the point, what percentage of potential users for their next app will know about Milk's philosophy (or care) when they see it in the App Store's "Featured" section? It might make the news, and it's a good talking point, but I can't help feeling the naysayers are just stuck in an echo chamber on this.