On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > True, but, I don't know, and I don't think Steve Yegge knows, what the > Google+ team is planning to do. I'd say that launching your project with a > full API in place is a big mistake: You spent a lot of time on that API (or > if you didn't, it would suck), so that's less time you're iterating with > user feedback. Also, if you want to make big changes to the product based on > feedback, now you also have to worry about pissing off developers who > invested in that API and which you now either have to keep backwards > compatible at great cost, or you have to break compatibility and bother all > those programmers.
Realize that Steve wasn't just talking about a public API for G+. He was saying that there is no way for anyone in all of google to get information out of it. There is a reason it didn't have search day one. There is a reason from gmail I can get an email saying there is something new, but I have to go over to G+ to respond to it. (I don't get this at all, honestly. Sure, it has "circles" but buzz was much more seamless with my email. Not to mention it actually acknowledges google reader. I think G+ almost deserves to fail for the idiocy that are "sparks." A word I notice is no longer on G+. When did they drop those?) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
