"Facebook has also, inexplicably, disabled his personal account."
Sure they can try and justify blocking the application by saying it made 'excessive API calls', but how do they justify disabling his personal account?
Breakup Notifier Shut Down By Facebook
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#12Meta-question: Will this termination inspire the same anti-"proprietary walled garden" rhetoric as Apple's imposition of new terms for subscription sales? If not, why not?
If not, I suspect it's that most people already understand that a hosted service, like Facebook, is inherently a walled garden, and hence it's not surprising when something like this happens. Apple's control over what you can and can't do with hardware and software that you own is a little more alarming perhaps?
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#13You don't get to 3.6 million stalkers without creeping out a few people.
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#14Meta-question: Will this termination inspire the same anti-"proprietary walled garden" rhetoric as Apple's imposition of new terms for subscription sales? If not, why not?
If not, I suspect it's that most people already understand that a hosted service, like Facebook, is inherently a walled garden, and hence it's not surprising when something like this happens. Apple's control over what you can and can't do with hardware and software that you own is a little more alarming perhaps?
Sorry, I meant to upvote. Fat iPhone thumb.
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#15Meta-question: Will this termination inspire the same anti-"proprietary walled garden" rhetoric as Apple's imposition of new terms for subscription sales? If not, why not?
No. I don't own facebook's hardware. Apple's terms for their app store wouldn't be so onerous if there was another legal/good way to install software on your own device.
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#16Meta-question: Will this termination inspire the same anti-"proprietary walled garden" rhetoric as Apple's imposition of new terms for subscription sales? If not, why not?
My guess: no.
Apple's policies involve dictating the terms of outside services being used in their garden.
Facebook's policies involved dictating the terms of their own services being used in their garden.
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#17Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2243650
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#18Meta-question: Will this termination inspire the same anti-"proprietary walled garden" rhetoric as Apple's imposition of new terms for subscription sales? If not, why not?
Well, first, there aren't exactly many people defending Facebook either here or at TC.
But I think the reason the rhetoric is different is because we've all been buying downloadable apps without an app store for years. It's familiar. So it feels like Apple is adding unnecessary barriers for no other reason.
On the other hand, there is less history of service providers allowing you to use any app to access data they're holding on your behalf.
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#19Anyone know what can get an app shutdown by facebook? Apparently, Dan received this from fb: "For example, if an application is making an inordinate number of stream.publish calls and receiving a large number of user reports". What exactly is an inordinate number of post? Was Breakup Notifier spamming signed up users' post stream to get the word out? Or was it just an extraordinary number of api calls that FB was not…
I'm sure Facebook will refer to some perfectly vague rules. My guess is that its transgression was to highlight how creepy Facebook is or can be.
Isn't it creepy with the 'See Friendship' feature already?
I wouldn't be surprised if facebook came up with a similar 'Breakup Notifier' feature soon..
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#20And they disabled his personal account too. Not the best way to get yourself to be seen as a good platform for developers.
Disabling his account is either a display of creepy dictatorial power or an indication of incompetence and lack of common sense.