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Yeah, because services built on top of another 3rd party product are never successful... This makes no sense at all. True, your business will fail if the under

• m_eiman 18y ago
  At least they're not reliant on Hitachi et al paying the electricity bills to keep the drives spinning... I'd say that's a rather significant difference.
• raganwald 18y ago
  > Microsoft would fail if all hard drive production suddenly stopped The likelihood of "all" hard drive (or PC manufacturing) ceasing is a very different proposition than the likelihood of a single, unprofitable company taking an action that puts you out of business. Most business rely on private 3rd parties, but there is a reason that companies work hard to have multiple sources of supply for critical goods and services.
• ja2ke 18y ago
  There are extremes and extremes. I mean, should nobody develop software for the Mac or iPhone platforms? Maybe... but unlike Twitter, Apple is a fairly large and decently stable company which has been around for a while. Then you could look beyond that and say that developing for an Apple platform is still more of a gamble than developing for Windows, but the risk, even decently long-term, of developing for MacOS X, is fairly minimal. Twitter, on the other hand, is a free online service which is only a few years old, and isn't making money. I think where you draw the line in terms of how much risk you're willing to assume due to reliance on other businesses is up to you, but being pedantic doesn't really help.