What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly

Re:What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly by dmix on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @03:21PM (#5445468)

> people who could quickly assemble a MVP from existing APIs that appealed to the emerging cohort of buyers and trendsetters.

Oh man reading that I just realized that was exactly describing the type of consulting gigs I always get (and I'm young).

Are we a side effect of the pump-and-dump VC culture or is this a legitimate new way of developing software/products?

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Re:What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly by lelandbatey on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @03:37PM (#5445579)

Well, I'm not finding a lot inherently wrong with using new and existing apis to make other things. I would in fact argue that that is why we create apis.

However, I feel like people aren't very upfront with the fact that they are building on top of APIs. For whatever reason, there's this perception that arranging existing resources into a more valuable arrangement is somehow not a valid approach.

I'd love to hear others thoughts on this.

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Re:What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly by stib on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @08:39PM (#5447013)

We're living in the future of software development that Brad Cox described in 1986 in his book on Objective-C and "Software ICs".

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