*I'm extremely unsettled. *I'm agreeing with Dewald Pretorius's comments above... Here's an earlier related story: I was the first to market with a drag & drop interface for Windows...Yes: back in the stone ages of windows 2.x and windows 3.0 there was no such thing. And soon after HP, Xerox, and some other companies (Norton => Symantec, Central Point) all started to play in that arena. And after a longer while Microsoft said, sorry folks, this is going to be our playground... and wiped us all out of there... I swore I would not ride someone's coattails again, but I have (it's not possible to not ride on someone's coattails)... But in this case Twitter didn't seem so predatory, and I want to believe in the good side of "social" vs "it's just business", and I've met Ev and some twitter folk (before twitter) and was impressed with them as people. So I'm extremely unsettled by the lack of clarity on Twitter's business intent. I would appreciate some clarity on Twitter biz direction. Fred Wilson's post on top of other things that have been said by Twitter, and the dialogs between Arrington and Loic are extremely unsettling. I'd rather fail quickly, than go through a long, slow, and expensive death.
With that said, if I were in your shoes holding the cards, even if you're a kind player, I cannot imagine doing anything much different. And if it were my business you were purchasing, I'd be elated, and sympathetic to everyone else. You're more likely figuring it all out, just as we are. I'll live with being unsettled, but if you can clarify, it would be appreciated. jeffrey greenberg http://www.tweettronics.com http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are also free and welcome to express your opinions, even when > hiding behind a veil of anonymity. > > On Apr 11, 9:03 am, notinfluential <notinfluent...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Totally over-dramatic. And way beyond annoying at this point. > > > > Dewald, quit your whining and either get back to coding and doing > > something productive, or maybe you should aim your posts at this group > > instead: > http://groups.google.com/group/delusional-socialist-development-talk > > > > @notinfluential > > > > On Apr 10, 11:05 am, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Twitter has now displayed a distinctive predatorial stance towards > the > > > > developer ecosystem. > > > > > That's incredibly overdramatic, I think. We have, and continue to > > > maintain a platform that will allow for a vibrant ecosystem. We want > > > everybody to succeed.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >
