[mattstir]

> That's exactly what they are doing with the API lol

No, they're charging exorbitant rates for API access lol. I honestly can't understand how people can look at $2.50 / month per user for a few JSON responses and think "wow now that's reasonable."

If their infrastructure is that bad that it costs even on the order of a dollar per month per user to serve API requests, then I'd be horrified to imagine how much it costs them to send entire HTML pages to the millions of people that use desktop exclusively.

[satvikpendem]

It's not only the API cost (indeed, spez mentioned that the cost is minor for serving the actual API) but also how much it'd be to show ads as well. It's no different than an app that's free with ads and an app that charges 5 dollars a month without ads.