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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by pier25 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:41AM (#23770320)
> Wouldn't this mean that you just become another blogging service to trust?

Indeed.

At some point the desktop app will need updates too. If the developer stops updating it it will be as good as dead.

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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by chubs on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:58PM (#23775171)
You're spot on right, especially with the pace of change in macOS. I was thinking that i could angle this as a good reason to charge for the product: "If you want this app to stick around for the long term, paying will ensure that". Combined with some sort of code escrow perhaps, plus a hugo or jekyll export as an 'offramp', i think it could be presented as reasonably 'safe-enough'.
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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by pier25 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:10AM (#23777123)
> especially with the pace of change in macOS

Exactly. Windows and Android apps last forever. Not so much in Apple land.

It's not only that though. For example, something could be deprecated in the AWS SDK. If the app has to deploy somewhere it will be coupled to that too.

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