<story><title>Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizations</title><url>https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/03/26/facebook-platform-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IBM</author><text>Apple got this right from the beginning despite years of criticism about the &amp;quot;walled garden&amp;quot;. They took arrows for years: all the &amp;quot;open always wins&amp;quot; from the FOSS types, all the press coverage of some app developer crying about App Store rejections or onerous rules.&lt;p&gt;They didn&amp;#x27;t get it wrong because they know who butters their bread: customers. Developers are rightly prioritized last.&lt;p&gt;Fun to give this Paul Graham essay a read again [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;apple.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;apple.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>miracle2k</author><text>The so-called &amp;quot;data breach&amp;quot; was always in reality a by-product of an open platform that hundreds of thousands of developers could easily build apps on top. You may err on the side of &amp;quot;more reviews&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;less powerful API&amp;quot;, but in the end, those ideals are in tension. The more open the platform, the more open to this kind of &amp;quot;breach&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;People who believe in the idea in this kind of platform having an API should have long ago spoken up in Facebooks defense. This is exactly what I was afraid would happen, and I expect worse to come from this &amp;quot;platform review&amp;quot;. Given the kind of media coverage here, Facebook seems to have more to lose than to gain from letting random Hacker News kids build on their platform. And if so, they won&amp;#x27;t in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aylmao</author><text>&amp;gt; Apple got this right from the beginning despite years of criticism about the &amp;quot;walled garden&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Being a walled garden is independent of privacy. The calendar app on macOS Calendar app allows me to share my calendars in an open format (ICAL) and interoperates with other calendar apps through that specification. It respects my privacy by not sharing anything I don&amp;#x27;t ask it to without being &amp;quot;walled&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Signal is open and secure; iMessage could be a non-proprietary format and remain just as private.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; all the press coverage of some app developer crying about App Store rejections or onerous rules.&lt;p&gt;As far as I&amp;#x27;m aware a lot of these weren&amp;#x27;t for privacy matters  [1] and are sometimes a little much [2] (this one is specially absurd: [3]).&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;apples-widened-ban-on-templated-apps-is-wiping-small-businesses-from-the-app-store&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;apples-widened-ban-on-temp...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;16992830&amp;#x2F;apple-emoji-crackdown-cross-platform-apps-slack-whatsapp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;16992830&amp;#x2F;apple-emoji-crack...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@alariccole&amp;#x2F;apple-literally-stole-my-thunder-253aed27a455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@alariccole&amp;#x2F;apple-literally-stole-my-thun...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; all the &amp;quot;open always wins&amp;quot; from the FOSS types&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think that means what you think it means. FOSS and privacy are tangential matters.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizations</title><url>https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/03/26/facebook-platform-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IBM</author><text>Apple got this right from the beginning despite years of criticism about the &amp;quot;walled garden&amp;quot;. They took arrows for years: all the &amp;quot;open always wins&amp;quot; from the FOSS types, all the press coverage of some app developer crying about App Store rejections or onerous rules.&lt;p&gt;They didn&amp;#x27;t get it wrong because they know who butters their bread: customers. Developers are rightly prioritized last.&lt;p&gt;Fun to give this Paul Graham essay a read again [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;apple.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;apple.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>miracle2k</author><text>The so-called &amp;quot;data breach&amp;quot; was always in reality a by-product of an open platform that hundreds of thousands of developers could easily build apps on top. You may err on the side of &amp;quot;more reviews&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;less powerful API&amp;quot;, but in the end, those ideals are in tension. The more open the platform, the more open to this kind of &amp;quot;breach&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;People who believe in the idea in this kind of platform having an API should have long ago spoken up in Facebooks defense. This is exactly what I was afraid would happen, and I expect worse to come from this &amp;quot;platform review&amp;quot;. Given the kind of media coverage here, Facebook seems to have more to lose than to gain from letting random Hacker News kids build on their platform. And if so, they won&amp;#x27;t in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>An API into a closed service is no more FOSSy than a graphical user interface into a closed desktop app. I don&amp;#x27;t really understand the comparison, what do you think motivates it?&lt;p&gt;Facebook has open-sourced a few internal projects, but none of them had much to do with our personal data.&lt;p&gt;In fact, it&amp;#x27;s difficult to blame the API when the problem was that the data was collected in the first place. Surely Zuckerberg has some political opinions of his own, if CA hadn&amp;#x27;t triggered this media storm what would have stopped him from supporting his own favorite candidate internally? In fact, what&amp;#x27;s stopping him from doing that right now? Would it even be illegal?</text></comment>