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^ Yes. Clearly people can't take jokes here, already downvoted.

Edit: Even the above got downvoted and I get reminded again that HN is full of stuck up, overly sensitive and unhumorous engineers. With the exception of this being a great place to find interesting things to read the community aspect is uninviting and unforgiving.

Yep. Apple have released many apps after similar ones had success on the AppStore.

They have much much harsher ToS (and enforce them) than the discussed Twitter ones.

> 100x less memory and was much more performant

Technically you're not prevented from doing so - you would just have to keep it to yourself (/family/friends/etc). Non-technical people rarely care about these things.

> backstabbing developers

I don't disagree. Would be interesting if there are any stats on who/what made Twitter popular, got any?

> And why is that a problem?

It's a problem for Twitter when you're trying to run a top-brand. Clients who don't keep up-to-date actually make Twitter look bad to the public. It also makes it harder for Twitter to innovate, move quickly (and probably get usage stats), without coordinating with external developers. Apple actually does (in some aspects) force developers to keep their apps up to date. I develop iOS apps and this actually consumes way more time than I wish it did.

Your concerns are valid from a third-party concern but from Twitter's first-party concern they are distractions.

I actually think they've been very clear on this from the beginning, including the reason why (although it wasn't spelled out).

They've always meant apps that offer more or less the same functionality as official Twitter clients.

For the people who actually read the terms instead of picking up their pitchforks back when Twitter had that big tos "change of heart" would have understood that They definitely could have handled it better and been clear that the user limit was really meant for Twitter-clones.

It's clear they want to control the way most people use Twitter, but also to show advertising. As best I can recall, the tos change came around the same time as they started putting in ads. Besides the few remaining twitter clones always play catchup when Twitter puts out new features (recent example; polls).

I think J-1 would be the most legally correct (IANAL and all but I have some J-1 experience). YC should be able to bring founders on board. Since J-1 is for education and the program is basically an education.

J-1 is also quite openly (ab)used to bring employees over who do not qualify for a H1B or O-1.

Only important thing to remember is to pay the J-1 "student" otherwise they are (depending on origin country, but most I think) subject to a rule preventing said person from returning to the US within two years.

I think J-1's are 18 months max. Plenty of time to get a business up and running. By that time if the founder is successful (e.g. take on more investment) they could probably employ themselves with a H1B or E-2 ("investor") visa.

But I'm sure the J-1 has a bunch of issues concerning founding legal entities - this part I have no experience or knowledge of.

"wiggle room": Username limit was 20 characters (or something like that). 20 for username, 140 for message.

I see a lot of (rightfully) upset comments but this doesn't really come as a surprise to me given that Twitter (and others like FB, GOOG, ad networks) already track websites you visit.

I know there are ways of blocking that but I would have a hard time believing that many (outside of HN readers) block that type of tracking.

"just" a browser with a lot of native technology baked in to enhance the experience. Playlist caching for one.

A drone could detect loss of communication with the pocket device (snow or falling into the ocean should be enough to do that) and start some recovery/emergency sequence. E.g. stop + try pinging the device, if there's still no reply automatically call 911 with an emergency and GPS location. Is there a 911 REST API? :)