• zeppo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My impression is they’re being disingenuous, for the reasons you say. They could easily support 3rd party apps but ban large-scale data mining. Saying “supporting these apps costs us money, so we need to charge” is a manipulative half-truth. Like Selig said, they’ve priced it not just at covering their costs but making a healthy profit.

    • drlecompte@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      They priced it to destroy third party apps. There is no other reason for doing it the way they did:

      • very expensive, suspiciously like Twitter, with no basis in real cost or a revenue model based on 3d party clients.
      • a very short timeline so app developers have no time to implement the change
      • claiming that 3d party apps were never the intended use of the api, which is a blatant lie.