Person who paid for my app also later uses the Yelp website via a link for a specific review from my app. Also a customer.
Therefore shared customers.
> Sure you had some kind of informal permission at first.
I don't know why you would define it as informal. They had an official review process for deciding what apps to grant higher daily API limits. My app went through that review process 10 years ago including considering its functionality, screenshots, and I believe I even sent them a prototype back then. We had a few emails back and forth to confirm my intentions to only develop for the Mac and what I was building.
I'm sure that got lost in the corporate shuffle over 10 years but I clearly had their permission to build the app and in fact given the relatively high API limit they gave (25000 per day versus the free at that time 10 years ago I think being 1000 per month), arguably blessing.
You created this account solely to respond on this post and all of your replies are defending an ostensibly horrible business practice, which is to give your API users less than one business day of notice to switch to a different tier.
No matter how you cut it, that is simply terrible developer relations/customer service and a terrible way to run a business.
Person pays for my app. That was a customer.
Person who paid for my app also later uses the Yelp website via a link for a specific review from my app. Also a customer.
Therefore shared customers.
> Sure you had some kind of informal permission at first.
I don't know why you would define it as informal. They had an official review process for deciding what apps to grant higher daily API limits. My app went through that review process 10 years ago including considering its functionality, screenshots, and I believe I even sent them a prototype back then. We had a few emails back and forth to confirm my intentions to only develop for the Mac and what I was building.
I'm sure that got lost in the corporate shuffle over 10 years but I clearly had their permission to build the app and in fact given the relatively high API limit they gave (25000 per day versus the free at that time 10 years ago I think being 1000 per month), arguably blessing.