I struggle to be sympathetic in this situation. It sucks for Christian but on the other hand he's made more than most people would off of an app and he's a smart guy so I'm sure he'll be fine. It just seems like a lot of people here are playing the "oh no, our poor indie dev!" card but not quite realising how much money Apollo was estimated to have made.
When times are easy, Selig a vocal proponent for subscription pricing. When times are difficult, Selig sings a different tune.
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@sjsharksfan12 Time flies, and it’s been a month. How’s life without Reddit now?
The saga continues.
Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.
For me, sucks that there are a few forums I can’t interact with anymore, but life goes on.
Well, yes, the developer was that someone. So you think he did it to incriminate himself? Interesting logic, but there is lots of strange logic here. Personally, it sounded like a boneheaded joke one should/would only make with a company one was very, very comfortable working with, which truly makes it terrible business move. As I said earlier, there appear to be multiple boneheaded business moves on both sides, so it seems more likely to me that this was the dumb comment he claimed it was, rather than him releasing transcripts that he knew would incriminate himself. I believe that he thought he had a much better relationship with the company than he obviously did, and he figured they were throwing a huge number out to test the waters and he threw big numbers back. Not really unusual in a lot of negotiations (more or less calling bull), but you really need to know your business partners’ expectations/intentions if you are going to pull that move. As I’ve said earlier, I disagree with the portrayal of either side being evil, I just figure this was an extremely poorly done business transaction for both sides. If this outcome was the actual plan of either side, it truly makes no sense.
Seems like a pretty huge stretch, considering the comment pre-dated the “bad press/feelings”. And beyond that not even having happened yet at that point, I’m not sure why you think he could stop the bad press later, since he wasn’t the only developer affected by the API changes.
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I mean, I’ve never paid a dime for it before this and got plenty of use from the app. Do you shoplift from every store you go to? Are you just a leech on society?
