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by vital101 5898 days ago
The author makes a good point about dependency on another company. Having your side project or startup completely at the whim of another company is not a good business model.

Might be good for a quick dollar, but it's not sustainable.
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asimjalis 5898 days ago
It's a double-edged sword. The big advantage of the platform is leverage: you get to leverage their technology and their existing user base.
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vital101 5898 days ago
That's true. I suppose you just have to be willing to keep up with any changes they make to their TOS. For instance, Apple limiting the development languages on their new Iphone/Ipad/Itouch OS.
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aymeric 5896 days ago
This has been ok for a year or so but in the last 6 months Facebook has introduced a lot of breaking changes (ie: removing the notifications, and stream.publish)
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aymeric 5896 days ago
It is definitely easier to get traction quickly (especially if you target a growing market like France was when I started)
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