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by asimjalis 5902 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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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.
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)
It is definitely easier to get traction quickly (especially if you target a growing market like France was when I started)