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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by reaperducer on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:21PM (#16878557)
>Giving third parties access to that data in order to build things gave them great marginal gains on their way to the top

Without Pieces of Flair and Farmville, Facebook would be MySpace.

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by JetSpiegel on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:47PM (#16878836)
That was when Facebook was growing. They are the incumbent now, time to kick the ladder.
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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by reaperducer on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:30PM (#16879255)
> That was when Facebook was growing

Yes. Since I was replying to a comment which included the phrase "on their way to the top."

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