I like the sentiment of reducing user friction, but one statement sticks out to me:
> And we chose Facebook / Twitter / OAuth right? Nope. It's a shitty position to be in when you have this large, deaf middle-man between you and your customers. Period.
Isn't the user's mobile carrier in between? While it may look less restrictive at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if (insert-your-carrier-here) changed policies on their network that restricted sending the information you need.
It's better than the FB/T/Y/G/etc. dependency, but only as a form of the UI. I think you still have a dependency there, and that dependency could be more volatile than meets the eye.
Not really -- most datacenters or upstream providers aren't really engaged or interested in the data your application uses (outside of illegal activities.)
Carriers are definitely concerned with the bits being passed around.
> And we chose Facebook / Twitter / OAuth right? Nope. It's a shitty position to be in when you have this large, deaf middle-man between you and your customers. Period.
Isn't the user's mobile carrier in between? While it may look less restrictive at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if (insert-your-carrier-here) changed policies on their network that restricted sending the information you need.
It's better than the FB/T/Y/G/etc. dependency, but only as a form of the UI. I think you still have a dependency there, and that dependency could be more volatile than meets the eye.