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When Google Maps announced they were going to start charging it was exactly like getting AIDS. ...Maybe don't compare losing API access to being a Cancer patie
by PhrosTT 14y ago
When Google Maps announced they were going to start charging it was exactly like getting AIDS.
...Maybe don't compare losing API access to being a Cancer patient. This isn't going to kill you, or financially bankrupt you, or destroy your family...
- jetti 14y agoAgreed. I think a better analogy would be comparing this situation to being a squatter and seeing a real estate agent sign in the yard of the house you've been squatting in. You realize that you only have a short amount of time to leech off the work of others before it is cut off.
- marquis 14y ago>leech off the work of others That's an unfair assessment. In same cases perhaps, but the core issues is that Twitter et al offer certain types of access and then revoke it. If this developer had reverse-engineered their API and they closed the loophole, leeching would be a more relevant term.
- vampirechicken 14y agoTwitter is a private service. You use it at their pleasure.
- goatforce5 14y agoExcept you weren't squatting because you were originally invited in (to use the API).
- bozho 14y agoI agree the metaphor is a bit excessive, but it was supposed to mean "knowing the imminent end of something". Of course, life is incomparable in value to a simple product, but that's what metaphors are about.