<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>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>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></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>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>ktta</author><text>Ben Thompson talks about this towards the end&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;the-facebook-brand&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;the-facebook-brand&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>