Similar vibes than Reddit api pricing
Reddit got the idea from Elon's twitter API fees. This is Elon being consistent(ly terrible).
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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API pricing is such a shitty obnoxious dogshit practice that is now of course becoming standard because of course it is. internet barely costs money come the fuck on make a quality product
It used to be a respected standard for developers and hosts to be somewhat open and friendly to 3rd party devs, because ultimately they're customers and they're helping recruit and retain customers, they should be treated with respect. just because it's innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn't mean it's good
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
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
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just because it’s innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn’t mean it’s good
That's a great Maxim.
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I have the slightest bit of sympathy. So many companies got their shit scraped and fed into AI models. They lost out. They're afraid it will happen again.
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Something to note: Tesla has two vehicle APIs, the Fleet API for commercial accounts and the Owner API for individuals. This change currently only impacts the Fleet API.
If you are an individual owner who accesses your vehicle data from the Owner API (usually via a self hosted tool like TeslaMate), this does not affect you. Yet.
I'm not a developer, so excuse me if this is a dumb question. Is the API supplying data that is provided by the OBDII interface? Or is it more than that?
There is most likely an overlap on what you can get from the OBD port, but generally speaking the API will provide more high level info e.g driving status, mileage, live location - and the OBD port will provide more low level data e.g. detailed battery stats from the BMS, energy usage, etc.
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stop buying tesla, stop supporting spacex, and stop buying starlink
And stop using Xitter.
^^ this. In America the only vote that really matters is the one you do with your wallet.
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Another reminder to developers to not bother with public APIs, just screen-scrape or reverse-engineer the official app private API.
Really the lesson is, don't run a business that 100% depends on another company.
This. It's a recipe for disaster. I think enough (tech-related) companies have shown now, that they first want to lock you in, and then if they got you, want to bleed you out...
Virgin API user vs chad scrapper.
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Its Tesla; y'all should be dumping that shit anyway.
So musk pulled a Reddit spez?
Not surprising as musk is a scammer who got incredibly lucky, always has been.
Fuck spez and fuck musk
It's only going to get worse year over year as we move towards a dystopian corporation ran future.
The U.S. leading the pack on testing how much a rich person can get away with while directly interfering with a d profiting from the government, which is funded by the people.
It's just another grift, but this time in the open, corporate sponsored politicians being elected as presidents is going to become the norm. The only thing it takes is money to influence an undereducated populace.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
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I'm surprised devs didn't see the writing on the wall after Twitter all but murdered its API
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Reminds me of the Fall Out Boy song “Dead on Arrival”.
Or, one of the original punk bands, DOA
Or the old saying "Dead on Arrival"
When Twitter (and Reddit) pulled this off, I was just mildly pissed. Can't do interesting things with my data, oh no.
...Image that, except it's an expensive luxury car you're no longer allowed to do interesting things with.
One more reason I’m glad I bought a car with CarPlay / Android Auto support.
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Hehehe, we all know how that's like. I'm sure this income will truly be used to improve their services and support robust and reliable API infrastructure.
Imagine trying to sell cars and then pulling some shit like this
What’s the data? The article says the app was fleet management? So location and remote opening doors or something?
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rent seeking strikes back
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