When the semiconductor industry got access to the technology to reverse engineer chips, the quantity of new chip designs and output went up dramatically. I believe we are about to hit the same point in web and mobile applications but faster.
In 2016 there was a slew of scraping and crawling tools. I believe there will be just as many tools that turn web and mobile applications into APIs.
The reverse engineering arsenal is rising up quickly and there will likely be over 100 tools in under 24 months. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the above scraping and crawling infrastructure companies join the fray.
All of them have shitty names unfortunately. These go past the login wall and are a good bit more complex than scraping/crawling public data.
Our friends at Teller.io have built out a version of this internally for mobile apps and used it to create a bank connectivity service with thousands upon thousands of banking institutions. Will be wild if it turns into its own product.
Charging mega fees for data migration will be viewed as anachronistic. The customers now have weaponry to contest it. Wait til the LLMs discover the tools I've shared above.
Body shops in ERP-istan supposedly make ~20% of all their revenue from data migration or so I'm told from a friend in the space. That industry is starting to evolve as well. Mckinsey article here. Stay tuned as the number of web and mobile applications likely goes up another 100x from here and the data egress fees face reduction.
