I suspect a degree of commercial influence if this is the case, and I suspect you are right. I run Juggluco alongside L2 and get the desired affect albeit from two apps rather than one.
Ah well......
I've not heard of that third party app before. I assume it must be new.
I don't begrudge Abbott recouping the time and money it will have spent researching and developing its products.
I've avoided using third party apps/devices. I know Abbott consider such apps/devices may infringe Abbott's intellectual property rights in their glucose monitoring products, and Abbott have been very adept at stopping such third party apps/devices being sold or downloaded through "official" channels.
Unlike Dexcom (who don't appear to have a problem with third party software/devices "augmenting" their glucose monitoring products), Abbott's products are "closed" systems, and so far they don't welcome the use of such third party apps/devices being used with their products.
I don't particularly want to attach something to my sensor nor download some additional third party software to turn it into a real time cgm. Quite apart from the above, it is a faff, the Libre 1 and Libre 2 sensors are large and conspicuous enough already without having to place something else on or near it.
Also, from what I've read about these third party apps/devices if you get your sensors on the NHS you still have to scan the sensor a minimum 8(?) times a day to comply with the contract they make you agree to and/or sign so that you are sending data from the sensor to Abbott's servers so your diabetes clinicians can monitor your progress. These third party devices/apps won't send the data to Abbott's servers for you. Indeed, many of those third party apps/devices seem to work in such a way that they make it more diffucult to scan and send one's data from a Libre 1 or Libre 2 sensor in the usual way to Abbott's servers so it is viewable in Libreview.
The Libre 3 means there is now no need to use third party devices/apps to have a real time cgm. I just hope/wish the NHS will stop bring so ruddy "penny wise and pound foolish" and cack-handed in the way it is liberalising the rollout of real time cgms and allow more diabetics to have a Libre 3 or another real time cgm.