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Why do people insist on developing for walled gardens? This basic story - arbitrary problems with the owner of a walled garden - has cropped up so many times on Hacker News.

Walled gardens are morally wrong in proportion to the strength of their walls, and suffer from several very significant technical problems.

This sort of thing shouldn't be news to any HN reader.

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Walled gardens are where the users are, and where users are willing to spend money?

Sure. Then don't complain when it goes pear-shaped yet again.

Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/743/

They can set the terms but they cannot break its own rules.

That's clearly untrue. They can set the terms, and that includes the ability to change the terms later. And even without explicitly changing the terms, it seems that they're happy to play it by ear.

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