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Bye bye Pocketpedia (another casualty of Amazon's change in TOS)
- bensummers 17y agoSee also : http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/amazon-killing-mobile-apps-that-use-its-data/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/amazon-killing-mobile-a... (excuse TechCrunch link)
- ujjwalg 17y agoI have a general question about this. Say, a company releases an API which is used by a lot of other developers to make third party apps based on a TOS. An year down the line, the company decides to change the TOS such that all the apps become illegal, is their a legal recourse for the third party developers which can help them to be still able to sell their apps, of course legally?
- enomar 17y agoThere might be if most TOS didn't say, "we reserve the right to change these terms at any point in time, yada, yada, yada..."
- paulgb 17y agoThis is a shame for Bruji. That said, the clause prohibiting mobile apps did indeed exist when they launched last June. I remember seeing it in there in the early months of 2008, when I was looking into it. I hate to say it, but it's hard to feel sorry for a company that charges money for a product which violates another company's TOS. Especially when they blame it on the other company when they get called out on it. They claim to have not known, but even a skim though the TOS should have made it clear that mobile apps are not allowed without explicit permission.
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- Bruji 17y agoIf it existed that early we did miss it, especially on the syncing data to a mobile device clause. It would be nice to know the different changes, if anybody knows a place that has a history of the changes that would be interesting to see.