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Popular Reddit App Apollo Shutting Down on June 30
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I was holding thumbs that all this drama, mostly from the planned shutdown by most of the popular subreddits, would force Reddit to end this madness and that things would resolve amicably enough. It will suck so much losing Reddit at the end of this month. I love the platform but there is no way I'm using the official app or website. They are some of the worst garbage I've ever come across.
Imagine promoting and directing customers TO use Walmart for many many years; at their encouragement, request, advantage and growth, only to have them give you a month's notice that you need to begin paying them $20 million a year from $0 to continue because now their success means they don't think they need you anymore.
And that’s fine if you think your translation is correct. Ad revenues are significantly impacted on all platforms and Reddit would not be able to sustain it for much longer. Whine and bitch all you want but the business will be around longer as a result.
Losing Twitter and Reddit in the same year. Oof. The only social media I’ll have left is Mastodon. Tweetbot and Apollo. Rip.
Calculate the rate across the time they’ve accessed the APIs for free and I’m sire that comes out at a very competitive rate. What Apollo has been doing is corporate robbery
The developer is not against paying Reddit for use of their API. He’s just against the amount that they are charging for the use of the API two cents per user is ridiculous.
I use the web version of these (Reddit, FB). Is that not normal? I refuse to use apps of social media accounts.
You weren’t generating the business any money. So won’t be missed.
Unlike Youtube, Twitch and others, Reddit doesn't share their ad revenue with users who create most of the content on their platform for free, except some selected mods who get paid by Reddit.
Reddit is quite literally the bad guy in this situation and what has Apollo done wrong?
Why are people acting like he was taking advantage of reddit or something? they literally offered their API for free its not like he was underhandedly pulling one over on them.
The whole issue is the greed of the API costs and especially for me the outright lying about Christian.
Let’s be honest Reddit became crap quite a few years ago. This is a just another step in the wrong direction. As of June 30, I will no longer be using Reddit. Their app is garbage and the mobile website is even worse
Poor analgy. With interest rates and inflation landlords would be faced with increased costs that they have to pass to renters.
Similar situation. Reddit revenues were impacred by the economic slowdownnof ads. This is factor outside of Reddit’s control and they are well entitled ti adapt their business to cope by passing the costs on. That is business, unforseen challenges arise and it reallt demonstrates the risks of businesses relying on one income stream.
A business can charge whatever they want for their service, have you forgotten that? If walmart wanted to sell you milk for 80$, they can do that, what part of that do you not understand? As a buyer you choose. You can choose not to buy from walmart. But now all of a sudden walmart is a "bad guy"? How? Stupid maybe. Bad? Wtf??
They’re the bad guy for protecting their income stream?
1) That's the only data point we have to go off of. Everything else is uninformed speculation.
2) Half right. Under Apple's Small Business Program, it's 15% for apps that make < $1M/yr, but that's only existed for the last few years.
3) Again, the only actual data we have are subscriber numbers; everything else is uninformed speculation. According to the App Store, the only IAPs for Apollo rn are subs and tips.
4) He obviously has costs. I don't care enough to go find his post, but he pays at least one person for server maintenance. Which means he also has server costs.
5) Rank uninformed speculation. Far more likely he made next to nothing for the first few years. And even your own generous estimate here is far less than the $5M you initially claimed.
6) Yes, my numbers for Apollo include only Apollo. Maybe he sells stuff on Etsy on the side, too, but again the only data point we have are subscriber numbers.
7) Correct. Most people make > $1M in their lifetimes. "Wealth" is typically based on net worth, not lifetime earnings.
If you refuse to acknowledge that reddit is handling this situation poorly I don't know what to tell you.
If you read Christian's post he has recorded calls from earlier this year reassuring him that the API wasn't getting changed any time soon and then all of a sudden with incredibly short notice they want to charge an absurd amount of money.
Again, no one is saying they shouldn't be able to charge, no one is saying they can't charge what they want. The issue is that they are doing it on short notice, not taking any feedback, and again lying about 3rd party app developers to try and make themselves look better for the sake of their IPO. They are the bad guys.
If you think thats the summation of it, you aren't even having a discussion with the rest of us.
But the BUSINESS, you guys! The BUSINESSSSSSS 🤣
Business is allowed to adapt as quickly or slowly as they need. Again, if walmart tomorrow decided with 1 HOUR notice to stop selling milk. Are they bad guys? Please.
If you yelled and said you children needs milk but walmart just don't want to sell it. Are they bad? Please.
This anti-corporation sentiment so popular among the young is sickening. It's like they have no knowledge of corporate governance whatsoever.
Eh?
So it’s impossible for a corporation to handle something badly, yet even potentially slander?
No one is saying Reddit is not entitled to a revenue stream, but the way they’ve gone about it is capricious and somewhat nefarious with agita at best.
I’m glad I’m on MacRumors, because just like I deleted twitter and Facebook, Reddit is next on the chopping block.