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Maybe this is yet another wake-up call to startups: wrapping up another company's APIs to offer convenience or incremental improvement is not a via business model. If your wrapper turns out to be successful, the company that provides the API will just incorporate your business as a set of new features with better usability, faster response time, and lower price.


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