swright13

Talking about how it works, ie scraping the site, totally misses the point. Same goes for the TOU. The point is that product works better than anything else offered and they seem to have no interest in providing an alternative. If they have no interest in providing their own competing product, and the existing product encourages traffic to the site, why have a TOU that hinders that? Why not either provide a Win Mo version of the iPhone app, or work with a third party that provides something that actually works well already and find a way that everyone wins, ie only make it work for premium members. Otherwise what is the TOU protecting? The app doesn't steal business from the site, and the site doesn't seem interested in persuing it themselves. Making this more difficult to use seems to be upseting more people that enjoy the site more than anything else. So where is the benefit to doing so?

Seems to me that the best way for everybody to win here is to make it so it only works if you are a premium member. I'd gladly do so. It just seems strange that this is by far the best app I've seen, and there's such a struggle to keep it working. I'll pay for an app, but I won't pay if it doesn't work as well, and I wont pay monthly for something that I may not even use every month. Why is it free to become a member in the first place if this is such an issue?