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Twitter and Keurig are finally seeing the impact of their decisions. How many more companies have to learn the hard way that strictly controlling how your users
by meritt 11y ago
Twitter and Keurig are finally seeing the impact of their decisions. How many more companies have to learn the hard way that strictly controlling how your users want to use your product is poor business practice?
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- blfr 11y agoWhat happened with Twitter?
- cryptoz 11y agoThis is a good summary: http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/ http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b... and the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9470312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9470312 TL;DR: Twitter was an open ecosystem with lots of partners and a thriving developer environment. They chose to stop all of that, end their developer relations, and ensure that Twitter Inc was the only way that anyone could Twitter. Now, that closed-off-ecosystem is making growth difficult.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoI would guess every company does. Just like every engineer has to learn that you can't really give things away for "free" if you want to survive, if you do not capture any value you end up destitute and unable to continue. In my experience (and that goes back to the time when Lotus 1-2-3 decided to stop requiring you put the Lotus install disk in the "A" drive before it would run) copy restrictions on non-entertainment products becomes a liability in the presence of alternative solutions. Of course the last bit is important, people need an alternative. And generally copy protection helps to empower the creation of an alternative which is kind of a good thing in a way.