Re:Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
by akkartik on Friday May 27, 2011 @07:02PM
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Google shutting down an API that thousands of developers are relying on without much warning is insane.
What constitutes 'much warning'? Translate API users have six months. Were you thinking of a different API?
People using the APIs knew the policies for deprecation in the ToS, I presume?
Re:Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
by jmathai on Friday May 27, 2011 @06:45PM
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>> Tweetdeck anyone? And Zynga (FB is its lifeblood)
Exceptions are not the rule.
Re:Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
by bstrand on Friday May 27, 2011 @07:43PM
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But huge, glaring exceptions can disprove a 'rule'. Risky? sure. Insane? These examples strongly indicate otherwise.
Re:Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
by jmathai on Saturday May 28, 2011 @01:30AM
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All start ups are risky, no? I don't know that adding more risk to an already risky venture doesn't classify as insane?
I probably agree with you though. Starting up is all about finding the right set of services to match the right set of needs...by any means possible.
Tweetdeck anyone? And Zynga (FB is its lifeblood)
Google shutting down an API that thousands of developers are relying on without much warning is insane.
The web is an increasingly competitive space and there are lots of walled gardens to worry about. Google openly encourages developers to build on top of and use its APIs and it prides itself on its "Don't be evil" policy.
Like it or not, companies like Google, FB, and Apple are platforms that developers are building on top of simply because these companies and their services are the "web" these days.