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In sorry, but did you ever imagine this wasn't the future for moves anyhow?

If you are given a free service you better expect targeted ads at some point.

Moves wasn't free.

Did they change the model recently? Or were they charging for their APIs? I don't remember they charging the users.

I paid CHF 3 for the app. It was free for quite a while but at some point they started charging for it. Now granted, that was a one off purchase, but considering that most of the logic could actually be done in the app itself, and the server could be used as just a data store, I'd say these CHF 3 would go quite a long way in paying for that.

For anyone else who didn't know what a CHF is, it stands for Swiss Francs. CHF 1 = $1.13

I did not pay for moves on ios or android in the US.

CHF 3 = USD 3.40

Thanks, fixed.

Actually, most of the logic is done in the server. They're running some fairly sophisticated machine learning code that's beyond the capability of an iPhone. (It's pretty hard to distinguish between brisk walking, cycling, and driving in slow traffic.)

Moves.app was free up until November of last year when they released version 2.0. Here are the release notes http://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/moves/

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