Bye bye Pocketpedia (another casualty of Amazon's change in TOS)

bruji.com

6 points·bensummers··5 comments

This 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.

If 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.

I 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?

There might be if most TOS didn't say, "we reserve the right to change these terms at any point in time, yada, yada, yada..."

(excuse TechCrunch link)

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