Re:Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go
by blowski on Sunday August 11, 2019 @07:37AM
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It’s unlikely to have a good outcome for a service that’s already dominant in the market. They fear being commoditised, or even strangled.
Imagine one of those clients becomes really, really good - so much so that it becomes the default way to use the service. The client starts adding features only available in that client. Then the client introduces its own competing service, inside the same client.
The service just becomes a dumb pipe, with all the real value in the client. This is why we want protocols, rather than services, to decouple the client from the service provider.
Imagine one of those clients becomes really, really good - so much so that it becomes the default way to use the service. The client starts adding features only available in that client. Then the client introduces its own competing service, inside the same client.
The service just becomes a dumb pipe, with all the real value in the client. This is why we want protocols, rather than services, to decouple the client from the service provider.