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		<outline created="Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:13:38 GMT" text="Platform vendors in love">
			<outline created="Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:13:43 GMT" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/4501372148/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/04/07/vendor.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;578&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named vendor.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jackson Browne wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI6hIc7R2i8&quot;&gt;Lawyers In Love&lt;/a&gt;, a prophetic song."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:15:54 GMT" text="Corporations and love don't mix. But platforms are all about love, you can see it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marco.org/500743718&quot;&gt;Marco Arment's plea&lt;/a&gt; for fairness from Apple, the platform vendor behind the iPad. Marco's act of iPad love, Instapaper, is wonderful, a gift for Apple. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:29:36 GMT" text="In the analogy of platform vendors and developers, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.instapaper.com/&quot;&gt;Instapaper&lt;/a&gt; is a healthy baby. But Apple, the father of the platform, is confused, it can't decide if it's really not a mother. This is the confusion that comes when platforms have vendors who are corporations. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:17:50 GMT" text="Much better if the platform vendor is a void. If you look for control and find none. The Internet is the only such platform in the tech world. And it's the only platform that works. Finding a platform with a platform vendor that works long-term is as impossible as finding Jackson Browne's lawyer-in-love. We all want to find one, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119822/quotes&quot;&gt;dear&lt;/a&gt;, but they just don't exist. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:18:22 GMT" text="You see Fred Wilson, who is a board member of Twitter, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html&quot;&gt;telegraph their intention&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/holy-cow-did-fred-wilson-drop-a-bombshell-on-twitter-app-makers-today-2010-4&quot;&gt;assume&lt;/a&gt; the markets of several of their developers. In this case it was a mistake for Twitter to ever see their product as a platform. It's a mistake they will withdraw from, gradually, having &lt;i&gt;already&lt;/i&gt; kept for itself the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+firehose&quot;&gt;juiciest APIs&lt;/a&gt;. This is the same problem Marco is having with Apple. And the same problem twitpic and bit.ly, and probably a few others, will soon have with Twitter."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:19:42 GMT" text="I've spent most of my career studying the relationship between developers and platform vendors, on all sides -- as a user, as a vendor and as a developer. There's no way around these problems, other than to do away with the vendors. That works, but the vendors won't go for it, of course. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"></outline>
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