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Plaid's data is also stale, overpriced, poorly documented and often doesn't work as advertised for many banks listed as supported. Their platform has serious billing issues and documentation inconsistencies all of which we have raised with them.
At best, this is a very impressive "mobile web app" framework NOT a native replacement. I would never trade up obj-c for cordoba/js if this is the kind of inconsistent performance users will have to deal with... and btw I love javascript.
I think steve is a phenomenal entrepreneur but may have built this launch up way too much. Without their native wrapper and MVC this feels like it's going to be a few years before it can rival native development.
This is the most common feedback we've had so we'll improve the docs in time.
Thanks!
But there is a big tradeoff for API user experience if you want to make it 'switchable' to another service.
Alternatively, for switching, there's this: https://github.com/stevegraham/parseport