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Re:Yahoo Just Pissed Off The One Group They Shouldn’t With D... by kgrin on Thursday December 16, 2010 @11:18PM (#2015148)
Actually, Yahoo has been a pretty developer-friendly company - for a while the geocoding service had less restrictive TOS than Google's; Pipes is pretty nifty; YUI, while a bit too verbose for my taste, is very well-designed; and of course, Douglas Crockford, the father of JSON, works at Yahoo.

This doesn't obviate OP's point - that closing a bunch of services makes developers less inclined to build on your platform. But I'm not sold on the idea that this will irrevocably alienate developers.

Besides, as Apple proves every day, developers can hate your guts but still jump on cue if the platform is good enough.

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Re:Yahoo Just Pissed Off The One Group They Shouldn’t With D... by dannyr on Thursday December 16, 2010 @11:56PM (#2015235)
"Besides, as Apple proves every day, developers can hate your guts but still jump on cue if the platform is good enough."

It's not about being good. If it is, developers would be all over the WebOS platform. It's because the App Store still generates the most revenue for most developers.

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Re:Yahoo Just Pissed Off The One Group They Shouldn’t With D... by chrisaycock on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:25AM (#2015441)
Right, it's the distribution. Desktop developers have been willing to shell-out a lot for Visual Studio because they needed to build Windows applications for wide adoption.
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Re:Yahoo Just Pissed Off The One Group They Shouldn’t With D... by grayrest on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:04PM (#2016813)
> YUI, while a bit too verbose for my taste, is very well-designed

YUI2 or 3? I hated 2 but I think 3 is the best general purpose JS library out there. It works particularly well in coffeescript.

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Re:Yahoo Just Pissed Off The One Group They Shouldn’t With D... by Raphael on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:15AM (#2016234)
That makes it all the more tragic. They hold so much potential to be a great technology company with such programming talent, but the executives constantly shy away from it, apparently searching for profits in less technical avenues. #2 in search? Better quit. #1 in bookmarking! Pull the plug. Yahoo even had the most visitors in the world at one time. And the millions of eyeballs are treated to vanilla news and email for a decade plus.
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