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i think they want to control their stream so they can control how how and when ads are shown and when you have developers tapping into that stream and showing you know cutting up and you know showing different visualizations of the data and ways that they want uh twitter loses the ability to control the advertising experience so it's a lot less interesting and that means the product now is going to i think it means the product is going to stall in terms of innovation on the platform
i think they want to control their stream so they can control how how and when ads are shown and when you have developers tapping into that stream and showing you know cutting up and you know showing different visualizations of the data and ways that they want uh twitter loses the ability to control the advertising experience so it's a lot less interesting and that means the product now is going to i think it means the product is going to stall in terms of innovation on the platform
i think what would have been really interesting is for them to be this great platform company um they have such interesting data that no one else has this very real time information about what's going on in the world and you know if you expose that to developers and let them build interesting things on on top of that that's pretty that's pretty awesome that's pretty powerful
it feels like twitter has decided to take a very conservative approach to how they build out their monetization and go this very standard advertising friendly route um which you know i think it makes sense in in terms of realizing their evaluation but it makes them a lot less interesting of a company
there's not a whole lot of revenue in maps right
the user is still in control of their data in that the data is local to their device so as long as someone doesn't become come in physical possession of the device or it gets hacked you know you still are controlling your data so I don't have a major problem with it
I believe from the beginning that the story was kind of overhyped
Apple's explanation about that first bug just holds no water for me at all
I think Google got away from that from for a long time and my thinking is that under Larry Page they're probably going to get back to to a similar sort of line of of thinking
you know Microsoft's big winners are you know their big money makers are are the the third party plat theh applications that they produce you know copies and perhaps better versions of right well Microsoft Word over Word Perfect Lotus 123 giving away to excel
it's very like Microsoft uh you know was like uh you know 10 20 years ago where they're going to cannibalize the winners on their platform
I I think they've learned from the AOL model