Third party devs have said they don’t mind a reasonable API rate, but both the cost (~$20 million/year just for Apollo) and the timing (30 days to make the pricing changes, update the app, work out bugs, get Apple to approve it, etc) were just stupid.
It was done this way to kill the third party apps, period.
Is there a way to bookmark that on kbin (safari on iPhone)? I guess I could email the link to myself, but that’s clunky.