David HM Spector
San Francisco based iOS & OSX developer • foodie • coffee snob/roaster • recovering New Yorker
Be careful to choose a market that doesn’t depend on a platform whose owner can make you irrelevant overnight.
How my app became irrelevant overnight
Stuart Hall
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Yep. If you don’t own your ecosystem, you’re just a renter in someone else’s … and when the landlord decides to evict you, you better have someplace to land.
Cases in point: Twitter killed almost all its 3rd party developers, Zynga was decimated by Facebook pulling the plug on them …<hundreds more examples> .. and last week DFacebook pulling the plug on Parse.
