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pino82
2y ago
Of course it's generic and perhaps not a technically correct statement. And now? Why should they spend time on writing you nicer emails? What was your value to them? Zero? Or is that too optimistic actually?
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pino82
2y ago
If it wasn't informal, then fine! Then better take your contracts and bring them to the court, instead of fishing for sympathy in some web forums.
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pino82
2y ago
Since ~15 years, people got the idea that all the WhatsApps, Instagrams or Twitters around them aren't companies, but kind of public infrastructure. They all knew that it's a wrong assumption, but it's sooo convenient, and at
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pino82
2y ago
Yes, I got that, but why should they bother? Your understanding is that you were business partners, while in fact, you were just lucky enough to get access to their service for some years. If you had an actual contract, it would be a differ
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pino82
2y ago
What is the precise meaning of 'dev relations' here? What is the actual relation? They haven't ordered him to dev sth.
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pino82
2y ago
It was never different. Just, with the advent of iPhone, FB, WhatsApp, Youtube, etc, a lot of people basically decided to ignore this fact of life. So good and for so long that they completely forgot it. They forgot it good enough that even
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pino82
2y ago
If the price is too high for you, here is my idea for you: don't use their product. ;)
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pino82
2y ago
why? for what?
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pino82
2y ago
There was no contract and nothing. Even instant revocation would be okay. Why not?
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pino82
2y ago
I was just wondering why - for multiple screens of text - nobody came and just posted some pointless youtube link. But this case seems to be funny at least (acc to your text): A YT link about the 'old, open web'. YMMD!
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pino82
2y ago
Precisely that. Funnily, if I understood correctly, he already had that lesson with Facebook. Let's see what comes next...
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pino82
2y ago
My sympathy is veeery limited. But once you have an app that does the exact opposite, please tell me!! And, just in that particular case: I'm veery okay if that would be a cloud service.
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pino82
2y ago
I'd say, no you had no shared customers. Yelp had the customers, and you wrote some app that uses Yelp. For no real reason you assumed that you could be part of them (as with Facebook earlier). Sure you had some kind of informal permis