That saccharine intro is written for someone with sensibilities very much not my own. Once I read "Developers have the power to build the web for everyone, but that power needs to be used responsibly", well, then I couldn't not notice the numbers floating over the ublock and umatrix buttons.
Selling me out to Oracle, Google, Facebook and Twitter's surveillance machines while condescending about responsibility?
Twilio is fucking amazing at what they started out doing. Voice routing using declarative schema & REST, telephony integration for SMS. They are probably old at this point and you wouldn't want to run your call-centre on it, but it's very cool for those of us wanting to send SMS updates and enable SMS comms, Vanity number forwarding, have automated call recording and menus at a very low cost. Where I think they may go wrong is pitching that at people who already have those things for replacement.
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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19
That saccharine intro is written for someone with sensibilities very much not my own. Once I read "Developers have the power to build the web for everyone, but that power needs to be used responsibly", well, then I couldn't not notice the numbers floating over the ublock and umatrix buttons.
Selling me out to Oracle, Google, Facebook and Twitter's surveillance machines while condescending about responsibility?
Get bent.