About six months ago I made a Mac app to play their radio streams, so that I wouldn’t have to use the web player on my Mac. I recently polished it up a bit, and began selling it in the Mac App Store.
I'm going to sidestep all the obvious stuff that is wrong with this ridiculous blog post and just say that it is unethical to sell an app which taps into someone else's content in a nonstandard way that you have no control over. Any time the people controlling the content make the slightest change they could break your app. And your customers are left with a lighter wallet and a suddenly non-functioning app.
If you're going to write a program that accesses someone else's services in an unsupported way, really the only thing you can do is give it away.
I'm going to sidestep all the obvious stuff that is wrong with this ridiculous blog post and just say that it is unethical to sell an app which taps into someone else's content in a nonstandard way that you have no control over. Any time the people controlling the content make the slightest change they could break your app. And your customers are left with a lighter wallet and a suddenly non-functioning app.
If you're going to write a program that accesses someone else's services in an unsupported way, really the only thing you can do is give it away.