alt Hacker NewsHaving a handful of companies that can contact you has created a land of monopoly hyperscalers.
It's so hard to build anything big and durable because they've created these steep gradients.
Having a handful of companies that can contact you has created a land of monopoly hyperscalers.
It's so hard to build anything big and durable because they've created these steep gradients.
"They" didn't create them. They laid out the bait - free APIs to do all sorts of stuff, and lazy-ass programmers took the bait hook line and sinker without thinking through the consequences of everyone moving their sites into "the cloud." Or didn't care.
Lot of people need to look in the mirror on this one - from programmers to execs.