The public comment in the developer's eyes open platform: to welcome also refused

Developer Dictation: This public comment is a very elementary opening, only opened four API Nan after months of preparation, the public comments on the official announcement of the Open platform (developer.dianping.com). The internet company, known as the "slow company," finally came out of the open door and began opening local merchant information, latest reviews, deals and deals to third parties. But what about the effect of openness? Is it going to make developers happy? Is it true development or false openness? A developer in detail to understand the opening details to Sina technology deep spit, share his eyes on the public comment on the open platform. The following is the developer's dictation, a matter of record. This public comment is a very elementary opening, only opened four API, is "Search merchant", "search group purchase", "obtain the designated purchase Information" and the most core "obtain the newest comment of the designated merchant". 1, buy No business model feedback developers Four API two are related to group buying, it seems to be very strong, but in fact, there is no real meaning, because there is no business model to give back to developers. Is it pay-per-click or paid by transaction? What is the ratio? If I develop a group buy navigation application, is it in vain to comment on the group with flow? 2, search Merchant API has advantages, but not small search merchant API can be based on geographical location, business area, classification, keywords and other conditions to obtain a list of merchant information, the public comments although there are some advantages in the merchant information, but it is not obvious that Gould and the street and other companies provide similar information. Public comments The advantage is that the business star, products, environment, services and other evaluation information, but the richness of the data with professional map software vendors may be slightly less than a chip. 3, the latest comment on the Merchant API, petty the most core of this opening is "get the designated merchant latest Comment API", this is the public comments on the accumulation of hard work for many years under the core advantages. In order to protect these data, the public comments made very strict restrictions. First of all, this API is marked as "Advanced API" by the public comment, need to apply to them separately, but the condition of the application is not clear. From the current published cooperation side, gold, impression notes, Grand, General Motors, Jia Ming, etc. are large companies, usually platform for large companies have special care, as for small and medium-sized developers can not be authorized. Second, this API can only get the specified merchant's latest three user reviews, but also the first 50 words of the summary, if users want to see the full text must be two clicks to the public comment on the official website to see, this is a very unfriendly user settings, a great impact on the user experience. Third, the public comments on user agreements make developers uncomfortable. For example, the public comment provides seven services that may compete with their own business, and may be terminated if the developer is involved. The seven items are: User reviews, group buys, electronic coupons, merchant bookings, electronic membership cards, and public comments on other services provided to users of the network. What is "other service"? This "other" is an infinite number of possibilities., if one day the general public reviews the development of a "other service" with a third party development features a little conflict, our app may be stopped at any time. In addition, the public comment also stipulates that "developers cached data must be deleted within 24 hours", and in fact most developers in order to experience fluency will be cached commonly used data, the public comment also has no technical means to monitor whether the developer really delete, this is almost a meaningless clause. 4, can only get data, can not submit data, one-way operation of the development of space is very small the appearance of several APIs have a feature, that is only from the public comments get data, can not submit data. The public comments may be afraid of some people through the API interface to praise, so there is no "write" API open, all operations can only be one-way, developers can not make any contribution to the public, which allows developers to play a very small space, even a gourmet sharing app can not do. In summary, I would like to say that the public comment on this opening is a very very elementary and conservative open, still hold the pipa half cover, want to welcome also refused. Both want to open, but also afraid of their own core data by a third party to get. This is an open program in ambivalence and repeated gaming, and I don't know how many developers are willing to pay for it.