Comment I must be the only one... (Score 2) 145
I pay for API usage for a number of services - IP lookups, traffic through Cloudflare, tax information lookups, etc - and any one of them would, at a fair market rate for the services, bankrupt me if I needed to do 50 BILLION API HITS a year. That's insane.
From a developer standpoint, I'm wondering if these services are doing a piss poor job of managing how and when they need to do API calls. That being said, do I think Conde Nast and CO would shamelessly money grab? Absolutely.