This is true of the iPhone and a number of other technical artifacts, and it is underremarked upon.https://twitter.com/johnloeber/status/1197359578716884992 …
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Access used to be negotiated by bizdev/etc teams and was sent-by-default. Open APIs being available is an under appreciated change in the state of the world, both because it means you can likely use them (despite not “meriting” access to a gatekeeper) & because they are levelers.
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The technical reality and economics of software development mean that companies with APIs largely don’t want to have to maintain multiple versions of them, so you are highly likely to be on the same one as their 90th percentile accounts, with relatively similar capabilities.
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It is frankly amazing that this works to the extent it does. It’s one of the reasons I love working at Stripe: to a first approximation, we aspire to delivering the same set of capabilities to the largest companies in the world and also someone building something on day one.
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Early web sites ran on home servers with DSL.
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As a career enterprise professional since ‘97, I feel compelled to quibble a bit with citing Oracle in this case, but I agree with your overall point (since counterexamples I might cite, while not $250k++, were often $25k-$200k++, which, in 90’s dollars was still a princely sum).
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Oracle and SAP dependencies kept most of my clients stuck in ecosystems that made end users miserable. Neither company has ever prioritized its customers workers, stuck actually using their software. That’s not right.
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