Good point! Feels like a lot of products start having the "quick exit" mindset, only a few are trying to build a product that last.

Yes, I like the concept but as I mentioned before can't see ordinary people using it.

Really like the idea about our own distributed/private-cloud version but I struggle to see ordinary users using it.

Same. I'm very excited about sandstorm.io, though. A lot of very smart people behind it, and the idea of being able to install "SaaS" apps onto your personal server at the click of a button from an app store, but where you own the data and can move from Linode to AWS to a home server, etc, is very cool.

That's true! Twitter is used a lot in the news industry. Hmm, good question I use it to share news with my family and friend since I live abroad.

Well Instagram and WhatsApp are owned by Facebook :)

Totally agree with your point. I'm 33 and aware the young generation is using a different toolbet.

I can't emphasize enough how much I prefer to let the browsers vendors handle that.

Pushed this example last weekend. It may be useful for someone else. Cheers!

IMO depend of the type of the project you're building. I'm using Ember because most of the project I work on right now have multiple pages, views and components. Using any other library/toolset would be much harder to achieve the same results. Ember comes with a lot of things in the box, the routes is definitely a game changer compared with with others.

At the end of the day it's all about money.