Google is definitely moving the direction of Twitter with their APIs. They are becoming very locked down. In the recent Android Wear release, for example, noti

Google is definitely moving the direction of Twitter with their APIs. They are becoming very locked down. In the recent Android Wear release, for example, notifications have always supported a thing called RemoteViews - a way to put buttons and the like in a remote process like a widget and a notification. Android Wear intentionally strips out everything but text and icon, however. I wish we still had the old Google who would have let us have powerful APIs and said, well, users will rate up apps that do or don't do good things. Proof by data. Instead we have another Twitter. I hope they don't start having bots analyze all the API users and kill ones due to robotic misclassification like happened to many of my Twitter API apps. Or user token limitations like killed so many more Twitter apps, geh. I guess they do do both already, though. If I open a bunch of tabs in Google Groups quickly, I get banned because they think I'm a robot. My Google Apps for business accounts got made non-free and charged for each user now...