To quote myself from just before: "You don't grasp that humans could possibly contribute towards something for purely personal, non-transactional reasons."
It's okay to give people money just because you like their work in general. No one is making you do it, but you're taking it very personally.
He's giving context to the situation. Not everyone who uses Apollo keeps up with tech news. You're adding your own emotional bias to it to make it a "sob story".
No one said anyone owes him anything. This is an argument you've made up on your own. The refund is completely up to the user to claim or deny.
What financial mismanagement? Is that another point you're just going to make up or do you have some sort of evidence for that? Again, to be clear, he's made a lot of money from the app. No one disputes that. But he also operated on information Reddit gave him, which they then changed with almost no notice. A sudden disruption and refund can still be a significant blow to a business. For someone who's been talking about understanding business the way you've been doing in this thread, I'd have expected you to understand that.
See, this is the bit that makes it very clear that you're grumpy. You're looking down on people for spending (a relatively small amount of) their own money in a way they want. But again, you're not actually arguing in good faith. You just reply with the same bitter points over and over and ignore anything that anyone else says.
