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you know, you might have a point. perhaps amazon should open up their mobile apis. but the language you used in your blog entry isn't helping your cause any!
by allenbrunson 18y ago
you know, you might have a point. perhaps amazon should open up their mobile apis. but the language you used in your blog entry isn't helping your cause any! you are not likely to get people to change their minds by using inflammatory words like "hypocrisy."
- masukomi 18y agoI dunno, thousands of people reading that you're a hypocrite does tend to have an effect. They have two options: 1) do nothing, and watch mobile phone developers either move to whatever API steps in to fill the void or go rogue and use their service without permission or adherence to the rules or 2) open it back up like it used to be. I realized that Amazon is the 800lb gorilla but if another book / movie seller can step in with a competing API before Amazon stops being stupid, they could steal a significant number of future sales from Amazon. Also, regarding the use of "hypocrisy" if it weren't true I would agree with you. But in this case it's not just an inflammatory insult. It's like being called a "pig f@#$er" if you don't actually have intercourse with pigs it's just an obnoxious insult. If you do the effects of being called it are radically different. I called them hypocrites because, in this instance, that's exactly what they are.