Recently, the activity tracking app, Strava, chose to cut ties with Relive, an app designed to create 3D videos of tracked activities, such as running. As an avid user of both Strava and Relive, I was very disappointed to hear of this.

The official statement from Strava read as follows:

"The current version of Relive violates several of the terms that we ask of API partners. These terms are in place to safeguard your personal information, to ensure a level playing field for all our partners, and to protect what makes Strava unique. We've worked hard with Relive to try to fix this, but they have ultimately chosen not to make the changes needed to honor their agreement."

However, the Relive team tells a very different story:

"After launching our first social features, we received a very unexpected message threatening to pull the plug. Given our long-term partnership, we immediately rolled back the changes like they requested.

"We then tried to call, email, and talk this out with Strava. No response, except for new ultimatums and threats about our existing features they've applauded for years."

It is very disappointing to see the dominant party, Strava, using its size to get its way instead of engaging and promoting smaller development teams such as Relive in creating new and innovative apps. The reality is that Strava should at the very least give users the option to allow their data to be used by Relive, and other partners, instead of simply cutting the access completely.

You can read the full story here: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/07/strava-relive-cc-app-platform-dispute.html