Similar vibes than Reddit api pricing

  • smitty825@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    The internet (ie bandwidth) is cheap, but running servers, providing documentation and tech support all costs a decent amount of money.

    However, treating an API as a profit center is a joke. These are literally companies developing software that makes the experience of owning a Tesla better. Making things unaffordable for those companies is putting short term profits over long term success of your product

    • Gingernate@programming.dev
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      16 hours ago

      But 90k is nothing to Tesla, it’s just a paywall to keep the third party devs put while being able to claim to be open