Oh they could make it work. But what they actually want is to funnel people away from 3rd party apps an into the official one. They could have just removed the

Oh they could make it work. But what they actually want is to funnel people away from 3rd party apps an into the official one. They could have just removed the API, but instead they set it to a ridiculous price that no app dev can afford. That way they get to shift the blame to those devs and say "see, they just don't want to work with us!"