You Have Every Reason to Distrust Googlebooks—And to Be Optimistic, Too
THE SO WHAT
A nascent OS like Googlebooks getting serialized feature updates underscores how platform trust and lock-in are being renegotiated in real time. If you’re building on emerging ecosystems, assume APIs and policies will shift under you — design for portability and explicit data exit from day one.
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