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Popular Reddit App Apollo Shutting Down on June 30
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Again, since you clearly didn't read, it's not the fact that they want him tp pay. It's the PRICE they are charging is absolutely ridiculous. Thats the issue here.
If you ever create app or business let me know - will avoid with this not-customer-oriented attitude
Same goes for Apple - they can ask whatever they want for replacement parts because soon every part coming from other original apple phone will have to be blessed by Apple to work. Which is hilarious.
Tried to not be rude. Sorry for Ad Persona.
Edit: Sorry I don’t get this argument, 3rd API requires to get paid, Apollo is not avoiding money gratification to Reddit. They are paying as they should otherwise it will be told years ago and blocked already. It’s just greed due to think - if we request more they will pay because they care about their customers.
Edit2: If you create a possibility for someone else to make a purchase in your shop in someone name and this gives you huge profits for sure and allows to get more customers it’s literally stupid to start 'killing the goose that lays the golden eggs'
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Since we’re here, I recommend the book “You should quit Reddit”. I already reduced my presence to a bare minimum, and I have been thinking about shutting it down for a while. Considering that I’ll lose my very old account, I might just never come back to Reddit.
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Yep, I know all about it. Reddit is free to stop 3rd party access just like Twitter did. They are a business, not a charity, and plan on having an IPO. They need revenue, and if they can’t from third party it will be from their own official app which is perfectly fine.
Anyway, usage will drop but many will crawl back in a few weeks.
What are you talking about? 2000 bucks is for the 8 terabyte SSD. There are no 8 terabyte SSDs for that read/write speed for 300 dollars. You linked to a 4 terabyte SSD.
You can clearly tell which people have actually read the developers thread on reddit or listened to his interview on snazzy labs YouTube. All these “suggestions” have already been answered as to why they are not happening.
Just another reminder that when you build your business model on someone else's business model, you better have a backup plan. First TweetBot, now Apollo. I have been unwilling to give Flexibits anymore money because they want a subscription for a service that Google or Apple provides. If they hosted their own calendars, I would do it, but I am not going to pay them monthly to provide a pretty front-end for other people's services. All it takes is another API shutdown and they will need to pivot too.
Or require 3rd party apps to display their ads in feeds? I don't know why this is never discussed.
Other than its missing basic features because... censorship... Well even if Apollo kept the app and started charging users they already said the new API blocks all censored data so it would be useless. Reddit is sabotaging their own platform. I don't use Reddit in a browser. That's the only way in the future to see all of Reddit.
Nothing to crawl back to.
Deleted my Reddit account over this. It won't change anything, but the website is going to become mostly bots and low effort content as the high quality users leave. Similar thing is happening with Twitter, open any tweet and all of the most vapid and unrelated replies are shown first.
First Tweetbot gets killed off and now Apollo. Two of my favorite iOS apps of all time.
Actually, isn't part of this move to charge for the API to limit the number of bots? Now (some) bot makers have to pay for access. Many won't do that.
No, it's to kill 3rd party apps while looking innocent. If they only cared about bots, they could easily cut deals with the major app makers. They will probably use that excuse even though it's totally irrelevant here.
I just deleted two accounts, and leaving one open which will die on June 30th as I don’t remember the password and can’t reset it.
And yet everyone I know here uses it. Probably best not to use such small sample sizes to infer larger use numbers.
The issue is that he’s looking at baseline costs of $2.50 per month per user, just for the Reddit API. This doesn’t factor in other API call costs, server costs, etc. Add on other stuff, plus the 30% cut to Apple, and you’d need to charge somewhere in the range of $50-60 per year.
This is also assuming usage doesn’t change much. If usage changes dramatically, the costs can increase substantially, as it’s nearly 25 cents per 1000 API calls. He’d need to keep tabs on it, cut off high usage users on a regular basis, and likely go with a monthly (not annual) model and adjust prices frequently.
The other option is to just charge users per API request with a markup, meaning heavy users could easily be on the hook for $20 or $30 per month or more just for using Reddit.
Opening the site with no account and an adblocker turned on only costs them money and gives them nothing in return. You could semantically argue that's still using Reddit, but it's not going there just to browse for hours and engage which is what actually makes them money.
Finally, more time for sleep, exercise and quality family time with family, friends and extended family.
The cited reasons were to curb the crawling of their data from bots. Many of them using it for AI training models. Data is powerful and making an effort to control their data is not unreasonable. I do agree though they could have worked deals with apps like Apollo if they wanted to. And maybe they did work deals with some bots and apps. They still allow free access to certain bots and academic reasons.
According to Chrisitans post there are only about 50,000 yearly subscribers, so it isn't being divided across 1.5 million people.