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