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Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60 million per year to run his 3rd-party app (electrek.co)
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[–] smitty825@lemmy.world 96 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

while being able to claim to be open

Marketing is happy while dafdy gets to squeeze

Anyway, look at their actions, not their propaganda