Always wondering why these big companies don't just get people to pay to use their APIs. Why not leverage the popularity they have into becoming a content provider for other spin off products?

Because there's value in owning your own tail. That your tail would be ten times longer if you didn't own it is of no value to shareholders.

“Some people say I am a terrible person. I'm not, I have the heart of a young boy... in a jar, on my desk.”

If only life was so linear and predictable You could have remained at Apple and Steve Jobs would have never returned and several other possibilities and cumulative possibilities based on the combinations of all those other possibilities.