Should Facebook Developers Be Scared?

Facebook and their advertising partners have begun to step on the toes of some developers. Rachel Rosmarin of Forbes paint a picture of fearful developers that are concerned about Facebook wrecking their business model or at least their opportunity to compete. Dare Obasanjo suggests that this is just a sign that Facebook is becoming a successful platform.

Dare accurately expresses the relationship between the platform owner and application developer: “It is hard to argue that it isn’t better for users” if the functionality provided by new applications become “a native part of the platform or underlying application, however it often leaves the platform developers in a lurch.

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