Pontifications

This thought has been in the back of my mind since July when relive was cut off: Strava cutting off relive as related in DC Rainmaker’s Strava cuts off Relive: Here’s what actually happened has happened time and time again. You can’t trust a platform vendor not to revoke your API access or to remove the APIs your software depends on!
Apple has done it umpteen times. So many times, I’m sure it’s not possible to get an accurate count!
Twitter has done it a least twice.
I still use Apple and Twitter (fortunately or unfortunately :-) !)
I think I’ll still use Strava even with relive.cc gone. I think I’ll post to relive from Garmin but yeah it s*cks.
The only solution is to own your own data and to pass it directly to the silos like relive and strava that you trust, but who has time for that ? I just want to bicycle and get kudos from my friends LOL!
This Dave quote from 1994 seems relevant:

"Today, Macintosh is an empty loveless house. Not a home. 
All the developers walked but left the babies behind. 
Not because of market share, that can be fixed with 
economic tweaks. We walked because Apple is a lousy lover."