Marco Arment
Artur Paikin
@marcoarment 
but don’t you think the App Store is also a “high-level, proprietary platform” for your business?
Sure are a lot of sunsets in Silicon Valley. https://marco.org/2016/01/30/mjtsai-sunsetting-parse …
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@arturi It is, too. But there’s no better alternative. In hosting, there are plenty of alternatives.
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@marcoarment How much time do you think it takes to set up linux boxes, and to maintain? -
@marcoarment The tutorials out there generally show me it’s possible, but not what I have to do to be responsible. -
@concreteniche Set it up conservatively using boring software and automatic security updates, and you need to do almost no maintenance. -
@marcoarment I didn’t know auto software updates were possible! Also things like backups, deploying changes, how to handle crashes… -
@marcoarment I think it’s most scary because changing anything will affect all my customers at once.
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@marcoarment "Boring old databases and stable languages." Preach. - View other replies
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@jimgaynor@marcoarment a business that’s not core to them. (hmm. AWS is now core, right?) -
@chuq@marcoarment You also need to carefully choose where & when you rely on vendors. *aaS is popular, but some things are better in-house.
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@marcoarment Hmm do I use this hyperlockedin trendy cheap solution that will F me in porting costs if they go under? Uhhh.. No. K.i.s.s. -
@marcoarment make a product w/no revenue model, obtain critical mass, get bought/ipo, sunset when the buyers can't make $#CircleOfLife
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@marcoarment "As stewards of a good thing, we’re always thinking about the next step" key WE NOT U OR ME ...! Rhetoric
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@marcoarment I love the tone of this piece. Nice work, man.
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