If you have a business based on say, using Twitter's API, you are wholly dependent upon them.
They could cut off your access, destroying you overnight. They could become less popular themselves, decreasing the value of your business in a way you have no control over.
That's not at all like being dependent upon a host, a linux distribution, your customers, or yourself. In a business based on some corporations external API you have all the usual dependencies plus your source, a single point of failure who is in a position of power over you.
They could cut off your access, destroying you overnight. They could become less popular themselves, decreasing the value of your business in a way you have no control over.
That's not at all like being dependent upon a host, a linux distribution, your customers, or yourself. In a business based on some corporations external API you have all the usual dependencies plus your source, a single point of failure who is in a position of power over you.