@AllenWong : Have you heard anything from Apple/Tesla about this?
I received the same message just now. They're going to stop the sale of Remote S after two weeks. Sadly, this also means that there will be no more Tesla app for the Apple Watch. But for those who already bought the app, it will keep working and will not be deleted from your device. Apple doesn't have a remote kill switch for deleting apps already purchased. So don't worry if you already bought the app or will buy the app in the next two weeks. The API hasn't changed much in the last few years, and I suspect that Remote S will still work for quite a long time even if the sales stop coming.
I find it odd that for over two years, Apple and Tesla didn't care about this but suddenly they're targeting all Tesla apps. Tesla, two years ago, even sent me a trademark infringement letter, but backed off after I changed my app icon and I never heard from them again.
How does Apple even know that we're using private APIs unless someone told them?
I wonder if Dylan Diamond, the high school student who made the Tesla Toolbox iOS app with his classmate and then started working for Tesla this summer, knows anything about this. I've caught him putting fake 5-star reviews on his own apps and giving my apps fake 1-star reviews before. I caught him because when I clicked the reviewer's review history, the only reviews were for his own apps including non-Tesla ones and my Remote S app. I never said anything about it publicly, because I forgave him for doing it after I told him to stop giving my apps fake bad reviews and felt that drama like that was beneath me. I just wanted to make good apps, and I don't mind the competition. He also kept saying in his Tesla Toolbox forum thread* that he'll update his iOS app but then never did because of an issue that he said he was working on. I suspect that he ran into the issue where Apple wasn't happy that he named his app "Tesla Toolbox" (which I warned him was trademark infringement, but he ignored). So right now, Dylan probably knows more about this situation than any of us. But he probably won't say anything, because he works for Tesla now.
*Which I don't know why isn't locked, even though he's not a vendor and the TMC admins locked my Remote S forum thread for not being a vendor - which happened around a few days after incinie became a vendor. But again, I refrained from saying anything because I don't need that drama in my life. I wouldn't even be surprised if this post gets deleted or modified like some of the other posts of mine that get deleted or modified by admins on here.
Anyway, it's been a good two year run. I had fun making the app. Thanks to the TMC community for the support all these years.
