Strava wage war on third-party applications, what does that change for you?

The number 1 social network for athletes is obviously Strava. Recognizable between a thousand with its big orange and white logo, the application has been made a place in recent years in the tops of blinds. A popularity that makes it essential for all people who wish to share their sporting exploits with their loved ones (or the whole world).

In order to complete the use of Strava, many applications, including coaching, use the API of the application forCollect user data and share it on their own service. A very practical and widely used feature, which notably allows you to discuss your last session with your coach or share it with your training group on a dedicated service.

Strava no longer wants competitors

But this option, widely used,should soon disappear. Strava has just announced that third -party applications will no longer be able to access user data with the Strava API. The social network defends this decision by ensuring that it is a protection measure for consumers,Stravawants to keep your hands on your personal data to be responsible for their security and confidentiality.

Despite the attempts to explain Strava's communication managers failed to convince the general public and the developers of the merits of this novelty. They argue, however, that0.1 % of third -party applications will be affected.

Faced with this idea, they are told that 0.1 % of applications can very well be used by 99 % of people. Details all the same that this is not the case here, the most popular third -party services do not collect your data from Strava, in general it is even rather the opposite.

It is also an exit door for third -party applications that are threatened by this change. They could review their code so as not to collect data directly from Strava, but to recover it at the source, in a companion application of a connected watch for example.

This solution would allow these services to always exist, and to offer a very similar service, while bypassing the new restrictions put in place byStrava. While waiting to see the reaction of these applications, Strava does not change his mind at the moment. All developers must get in step before mid-December.