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While I can sympathise to a certain extent, the ignorance of the StockTwits founder makes it hard to completely sympathise for honestly thinking that a company
by DigitalSea 14y ago
While I can sympathise to a certain extent, the ignorance of the StockTwits founder makes it hard to completely sympathise for honestly thinking that a company wouldn't take a money making idea using its platform and bake it in to the service. It's the same problem people complain of in the Apple app store, numerous times developers have cried foul over Apple stealing their idea for themselves.
I definitely agree it's not ideal and will stifle innovation, but when you're as big as Twitter or Apple you can afford to lose a few developers using your platform without any recourse.
- notimetorelax 14y agoI think the difference with Apple is that developers are not piggy bagging on Apple's infrastructure, but provide new kinds of services that Apple hasn't thought of. Then when these services prove to be popular Apple implements similar feature and uses the notorious clause in their contract prohibiting replication of native functionality. This approach is much more dirty.