{"id":5218,"date":"2012-12-27T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/dec\/27\/dear-apps-why-can-we-not-just-all-get-along\/"},"modified":"2012-12-27T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T16:50:02","slug":"dear-apps-industry-why-can-we-all-not-just-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/dear-apps-industry-why-can-we-all-not-just-get-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear apps industry, why can we all not just get along?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">Ecosystem could be &#8220;the word&#8221; of 2013, if only vendors, providers, ISVs and other technology conglomerates stop acting in a &ldquo;This Town ain&rsquo;t big enough for the both of us&ldquo; way.<\/p>\n<p> As an App user* I am increasingly amazed, affected and annoyed by what in my view can only be described as turf wars between various technology providers. Increasingly cooperation &#8211; that originated by a desire to have a quick time to market &#8211; is being replaced by outright competition driven by a desire to own the full stack. Some recent examples:<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phone manufacturers replacing perfectly good map applications with in-house brews*<\/li>\n<li>Search engines wanting to become social networks*<\/li>\n<li>Social networks* and web retailers* wanting to become advertising specialists<\/li>\n<li>Photo filtering apps opting out of 140 char event timelines* and v.v. event timeline apps adding photo filtering*<\/li>\n<li>Email providers abandoning the use of third party sync to enterprise messaging apps &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecosystem could be &#8220;the word&#8221; of 2013, if only vendors, providers, ISVs and other technology conglomerates stop acting in a &ldquo;This Town ain&rsquo;t big enough for the both of us&ldquo; way.  As an App user* I am increasingly amazed, affected and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}