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>>robbie+(OP)
Wow, that price is insane. To me, that's pretty clearly a shot at any competitor apps for Reddit. Purely anti-competitive behavior here, which to me is silly. Let other apps pop up to better serve your users. At the end of the day, they are still your users and you might learn things from the other apps.

Who ever came up with that price is looking for short-term profits over user happiness and long-term growth.

>>willio+a5
> Purely anti-competitive behavior here

An app that uses reddit is not a competitor to reddit, it's a client of reddit. No definition of "anti-competitive" applies here.

>>nomel+031
Except there’s a first party client for Reddit, so they’re both a client and server. Their client competes with other clients, and they use their control over the server to give their client an advantage.

Now, whether this constitutes “anti competitive” in the legal sense is probably not going to fly in court: it’s unlikely Reddit can be compelled to offer an API at any particular price. It’s their service, they can do what they want with it. Rather, it’s a lesson that third parties should not be developing clients for other company’s services, as it is building a foundation on quicksand.