Popular Reddit App Apollo Shutting Down on June 30

[krspkbl]

Well it looks like I'll be closing my Reddit account.

If I can't use Apollo then I ain't using Reddit at all. I hope the site burns to the ground.

 

[soapropos]

File for a refund from iTunes. Just renewed my 9.99 yearly fee but I am not losing anymore money on Apps shutting down. Love Apollo but not sure how I feel about this. No notification to current subscribers about this. I get to read it here.

I think you missed this

 

[coolfactor]

Imagine telling Wal-mart you will use their entire infrastructure for FREE to sell your own stuff and getting mad they now want to make you pay to use their store to sell your goods all while already charging users a monthly/yearly fee.

I don't think he's mad about there being a cost for using the API. He's just faced with an impossible timeline to adjust his business model to accommodate the new cost. It's like if you rented and your landlord increased your rent 10-fold, starting next month, or your city increased your property taxes 10-fold and gave you 30 days to pay.

Yes, he has profited off of Reddit's infrastructure, but Reddit should have offered a very gradual pain-free transition over the course of a year. The only ones hurting here are his paying, loyal customers. He's walking away with his earned profits.

EDIT: I just listened to part of the recorded conversation with the Reddit CEO and I'm siding with Reddit on this one. The guy behind Apollo seems to be some young punk that can't communicate professionally. It's like he kept fiddling with something while talking, and talking over the CEO. It was very unprofessional. 😳

 

[marinersaptcomplex]

Well there's nothing fun for me to do on Reddit anymore. I don't like the way the in-house app handles pictures, and I mostly go on Reddit for interior design inspo...

 

[WarmWinterHat]

This is super unfortunate news, but I don't believe people will stop using Reddit all together. I love Apollo, but I'm certainly not going to give up Reddit over this.

Anybody who says they will should authentically ask themself, "Am I never going to log in again? Am I never going to READ the result of a Google search if I see it comes from Reddit?"

I deleted my 10 year old account, along with all my posts and comments, a few months ago. Reddit isn't a requirement and the internet can and will be fine with or without it.

That said, when I did use it, I only used it on my computer. Never on mobile.

 

[Choco Taco]

Imagine telling Wal-mart you will use their entire infrastructure for FREE to sell your own stuff and getting mad they now want to make you pay to use their store to sell your goods all while already charging users a monthly/yearly fee.

Imagine not understanding the situation at all and then making a comment like yours.

Reddit sucks and is run by d-bags.

 

[max2]

I am so happy Reddit.com will soon die or not be used as much.

Never really did like it.

Sometimes companies are their own worst enermy

 

[Graphikos]

You can (and should) boycott Reddit if you want but I'm not sure it will make much impact. Apollo users are said to be upwards to 1.5 million (active? probably much less). Reddit has upwards of 800m+ active users a month. I'm not sure they will even notice. Not everyone will boycott. But you do you.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Imagine telling Wal-mart you will use their entire infrastructure for FREE to sell your own stuff and getting mad they now want to make you pay to use their store to sell your goods all while already charging users a monthly/yearly fee.

Imagine Walmart asking for a fee that is over 70x what other stores ask for?

 

[cgs1xx]

I think Reddit is an American thing. I don’t know anyone who uses it here (England) but it sure sounds like a raw deal for this guy and his app, similar to what Twitter did a few months ago.

 

[Mr. Dee]

Serena's family is growing, what did you expect?

 

[Knowimagination]

Time to say goodbye to reddit I guess, overall it will be a net positive for me personally as it can be such a time waster. Hate that it had to happen this way though.

 

[GizmoDVD]

Imagine not understanding the situation at all and then making a comment like yours.

Reddit sucks and is run by d-bags.

Imagine profiting from Reddit for almost a decade and now shutting down your App because they want you to pay to use their API. Reddit is a business not a charity.

You can use the official app, which is free.

 

[redbeard331]

I don’t think this is being done out of stupidity, look at T and who partially owns it, who are the owners/investors of reddit?

It has to be intentional. It’s a shame Apple couldn’t have bought out Reddit and left it alone.

Reddit can go to hell.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Apple social media network when?

Never. Apple is best never going anywhere near that. Creating a tool which encourages people to be the absolute worst to each other serves no greater good whatsoever.

 

[LlamaLarry]

I know hyperbole is the name of the game, but what is really so terrible about the mobile Reddit app? FWIW, I have a lifetime Ultra sub, so I *do* use Apollo, but for the sub I moderate the official app and/or the desktop is what I use.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Hope spez gets the karma coming his way. Lying piece of human garbage.

I’m personally SO glad that the call he had where he lied and claimed he was threatened was recorded and posted online. He is trash and we all know it now.

 

[Choco Taco]

Imagine profiting from Reddit for almost a decade and now shutting down your App because they want you to pay to use their API. Reddit is a business not a charity.

You can use the official app, which is free.

Imagine still not understanding the situation and then making a comment like this. Reddit is charging an exorbitant amount for third-party app developers to use Reddit, significantly more than anyone else would ever possibly charge, effectively running them out of business. Reddit is effectively cutting off anyone's ability to make third-party apps for Reddit because of greed. It's greed. Nothing more. It's perfectly okay for Reddit to charge a fee for third-party developers to use their API. What's not okay is charging so much that a business model isn't possible.

 

[MrRom92]

Imgur destroyed r/gonewild so what’s left to go there for anyway

 

[mattopotamus]

Imagine still not understanding the situation and then making a comment like this. Reddit is charging an exorbitant amount for third-party app developers to use Reddit, significantly more than anyone else would ever possibly charge, effectively running them out of business. Reddit is effectively cutting off anyone's ability to make third-party apps for Reddit because of greed. It's greed. Nothing more. It's perfectly okay for Reddit to charge a fee for third-party developers to use their API. What's not okay is charging so much that a business model isn't possible.

I honestly didn't think Apollo would shut down, but instead just pass the cost on to the end-user. Sad day indeed.

 

[blazerunner]

The news comes after Reddit decided to start requiring developers to pay an unreasonable amount to access its API.

LMAO! MacRumors will calls out this unreasonable pricing, but won't say anything about Apple charging $2,000 for SSD drives when others charge $300.

I made this exact complaint about unreasonableness from Apple just a couple days ago; link

You know what else is also unreasonable? MacRumors criticism for companies outside of Apple and ZERO criticism for Apple itself.

Disgusting all around.

 

[Choco Taco]

I honestly didn't think Apollo would shut down, but instead just pass the cost on to the end-user. Sad day indeed.

He would have to charge 3 times as much to break even and he didn't want to do that.

 

[iObama]

I'm a user of the first party app, but this decision by Reddit is some ********, and so is the defense of said decision in this thread.

Reddit charges nothing for years and years, then all of a sudden asks for millions of dollars a month and everyone's just supposed to be stoked about it?

Even though my app of choice isn't going away, I fear that this will have a very noticeable effect on the site. Lots and lots and lots of users use third party apps.

 

[__dontpanic__]

Imagine telling Wal-mart you will use their entire infrastructure for FREE to sell your own stuff and getting mad they now want to make you pay to use their store to sell your goods all while already charging users a monthly/yearly fee.

Imagine thinking that reddit hosts all of its content on its own infrastructure and doesn't just aggregate a whole heap of content that actually lives on other sites. Maybe the actual content providers should start charging reddit for access, since reddit seems happy to profit off them.

 

[yalag]

I've honestly never seen so much of the internet shill for a multi-millionaire before. Apollo has earned over 5Million in cash for him (whether you think that's justified or not) and it's mind blowing why so many are interested in the dispute between a billionaire and a multi-millionaire. It's like a football player disputing against the owners. Both sides have way too much money for me to be empathetic to either side.