Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third parties from using any data in AI models or similar apps, including to show a user's Strava data to other users
Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that's occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
DC Rainmaker Ray Maker
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Discussion
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@vicmsong
Victoria Song
on threads
Wild when you think about how people use Strava to integrate data across other fitness apps, wearables, and connected fitness equipment. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@torsten_frank
Torsten Frank
on threads
Strava doing @strava things. But so far in the most egregious way they ever did. And Ray does Rainmaker things: Analyzing brilliantly and on point. https://www.youtube.com/... cycling #stravaapps #stravaapi
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@pkedrosky
Paul Kedrosky
on threads
That any sane people still use Strava blows my mind. A few years ago I killed it after they were unresponsive about trail bandits. It never ends. Here's @dcrainmaker: Strava Announces Big Changes That'll Kill Apps - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/...
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@Johan_Barelds@mastodon.nl
Johan Barelds
on mastodon
The inscrutable ways of Strava... #strava — https://www.dcrainmaker.com/ ...
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@daniscross.bsky.social
Dan Cross
on bluesky
Strava's recent actions suggest they're trying to stifle innovation by targeting third-party apps. Their dismissive attitude towards user feedback is both disappointing and laughable. [embedded post]
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@dcrainmakerblog
Ray Maker
on x
Strava's just announced some massive changes that will ultimately kill off a lot of 3rd party apps, impact other platforms, and reduce the value of Strava. Here's why this matters, who's it going to break, and more: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/ ... [image]
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@smitmartijn
Martijn Smit
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I was just about to apply to the app marketplace with a new app I wrote for myself... It shows a data in a heatmap kind of thing, so that's wasted effort 🫠
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@brandonwatson
Brandon Watson
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@dcrainmakerblog This is a bizarre and crazy change of direction. I get it that they feel like they are under duress from these third-party providers, but I think they have underestimated the value of consumer sentiment on this one.
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@amather
Alex Mather
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New Strava CEO rite of passage: get cocky and think Strava is invincible, make truly idiotic API decisions undoing a decade+ of user and industry goodwill, roll eyes at any critiques, eventually capitulate to universal outrage and undo idiotic API decisions, and finally get back
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@kyriakosel
Kyriakos Eleftheriou
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@dcrainmakerblog the competitive advantage of strava is having so many apps built on top. with these changes they are killing most of them. man that's crazy
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r/Strava
r
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Strava Announces Big Changes That'll Kill Apps
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r/Velo
r
on reddit
Strava API Changes