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Originally Posted by Impureclient
$20 ≠ free
I understand you need money to pay your bills like we all have but software developers usually aren't hurting for money and considering it's an easy inside job that requires very little physical effort and not much toll on the body, I don't have much sympathy considering I am outside in 90+ degree weather 6 days a week and also have to run the business. If you own a home and use the service, I bet you expect your yard maintenance people to work for as little as you can get away with giving them, same applies here. That's fine since you're just trying to save a buck here and there. There's a reason that Americans are allowing illegal immigrants to take all the outside hard work jobs and it's not because they are easy and pay well. Some companies can get away with charging for a service even if you don't use it like a garbage collecting service. Carista is something we don't even need which is why it's hilarious they think they can charge a yearly fee.
$40 a year is too much for any app that you use one time and maybe possibly never again. $10 for using it once is too much too which is why I said $20 and you can use it as much as you like. That's why people use get pirated apps and circumvent the greed. I have a app on my phone that allows me to open/shut my garage door and know when it's open or close any where in the World, that was free with the garage door opener. I'd actually pay yearly for that since it's useful not just one time but the Carista app doesn't earn that honor for what it is. Wyze cam sells a $20 1080p security camera with 2 weeks of cloud storage...no monthly/yearly charge. I'd like to charge double for my labor or even better charge people yearly fees for nothing extra but unfortunately I'd get no customers that way. That's why not many people even use Carista especially since they went with their new yearly subscription scheme. We wouldn't even be having this conversation if the app was reasonably priced and a one time charge like it should be. They'll adapt by lowering their price to a more aggressive and informed buyer or go away like Kmart/Blockbuster/Pets.com/etc.
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Jesus Christ thats a humongous reply for what could be a simple answer. You say it's an easy job and that shows to me you really have never worked or have the knowledge to work in an IT environment. You have no sympathy simply because your life is harder and you chose a different career path?
You realize OBD-II PID development for a bunch of cars is incredibly time intensive and costly right? If you don't work on your cars then don't buy it, but it's incredibly useful if you have a modern cars,and friends that wrench on modern cars. I've used it a lot for TPMS settings and other stuff and it's super convenient. It's like techstream but across a bunch of brands, normally the OEM equivalent software for cars is quadruple that, and pirated techstream or subaru tis just isn't the same. Unplugging or wiring things is stupid and it's way easier to just press an in app button and have it easily reversible.
You can't compare smart home automation tech or security camera tech, like your myQ or whatever brand garage door opener and the wyze cameras. They have a cloud backbone and software infrastructure that can easily be developed and hosted via a web service. Also wyze cam is another chinese camera supplier that wyze put there software on, xiaomi and yi use the same hardware and similiar SDKs. That's nothing like an OBD-II software scheme.