[MatthewPhillips]

> and tomorrow someone creates Blinkr, which implements the same API,

So the benefit of hypermedia apis is predicated on something happens that almost never ever happens?

[icebraining]

On the contrary; REST, of which hypermedia is a constraint, is an architectural style derived from the observation of a very successful implementation of just that.

It's called HTTP + HTML, and there are millions of services implementing it.

[steveklabnik]

RSS is one prominent example of an API that many different sites implement.

And it's a media type! With Links!