&quot;The first thing that makes running Just Landed difficult in the long-term is a serious lack of innovation in the flight data industry.&quot;<p>Our company shut down because other people didn&#x27;t innovate enough, not our fault.<p>&quot;An app like Just Landed relies on access to high quality flight data to function correctly. &quot;<p>We created an app based on data that doesn&#x27;t exist. Not our fault, somebody else failed to create that data.<p>&quot;Traffic and mapping data in particular, much of which used to be free, has become quite expensive, and is now tightly controlled by big companies under oppressive Terms of Service.&quot;<p>Other companies refuse to give us free services, and want to keep their valuable data restricted under oppressive terms of service. Not our fault, how could we expect that people wouldn&#x27;t give us free stuff?<p>&quot;These power users consume 100–500 times as much flight data per year as casual users, and so the cost of supporting will soon begin to overwhelm revenue from new app sales.&quot;<p>We failed to price the app correctly, since we&#x27;re charging a one-time fee for a continuous service, but hey, not our fault again, who would have thought that people who buy our app would use it?<p>&quot;Essentially, there’s a massive oversupply of apps, and the app markets are now saturated and suffering from neglect and short-term thinking by the companies who operate them.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s too much competition! Seriously, it&#x27;s all the competitor&#x27;s fault, lowering prices as if there&#x27;s no tomorrow. How can we be expected to make money with such cutthroat, dog eats dog competition?<p>Seriously, what a completely lame excuse. [Edit: that was unnecessarily harsh, my apologies]<p>Sorry for my rant, I guess I&#x27;m in a bad mood today.