Well ... then he would need to charge them 400 dollars a year to break even. And that's definitely not happening.
Would you be happy if Apple charged 60% of sales for use of their App Store instead of the 30% (which is already ridiculously high) ?? Perhaps 80% would be better?
Yeah, while I think Reddit’s timeline is much too short, and the new API fees higher than warranted, the communication quoted in the linked Reddit post felt very weird to me in its unprofessionality from the Apollo owner. It almost seems like he was unable to communicate in a thoughtful, straightforward manner using clear nonemotional language. In any case, the outcome is very unfortunate.
Good advertisement for call recording, eh? I wonder how he did that, since you can't do it on an iPhone.
It felt straightforward to me. If Apollo really costs them 20M a year, surely a measly 10M to end the problem forever would be nothing to them? The only reason it is unreasonable is that Reddit is lying and Apollo doesn't cost them nearly that much a year.
People still use regular phones. And speakers.
Screw it, I'll delete my account too. I don't have any kind of sentiment towards my reddit account, so goodbye and FU to u/spez!
Exactly my opinion although I agree with Apollo on giving the 3rd party apps a few months to make changes like Apple did with Dark Sky.
Sadly it will probably not lose significant traction and just get sh!ttier, similar to Twitter’s trajectory.
Honestly the lies about the threats were the final push that led me to decide I will just delete my accounts when apollo is gone, its pretty disgusting to try and prop yourself up like that on lies.
Make sure to write “Apollo lives!” in the reason field.Screw it, I'll delete my account too. I don't have any kind of sentiment towards my reddit account, so goodbye and FU to u/spez!
That's the nuance that these black and white ultra pro-corporation sentiments are missing:
Mainly because subscriptions were voluntary because the overhead was low. Things obviously would have to change to support the new API fees. Apollo couldn't remain a free app anymore. I'm not saying it's an easy thing to pull off and reddit's API prices are still agreeably unreasonable. I was just pointing out it's not "impossible" as previously stated.
You can do it pretty easily with 3rd party devices. Either inline with a headset or attached to the phone itself.
I don’t believe you or anyone who says this. Maybe you’d have that resolve for a few weeks or even a couple months but you’d be back on Reddit via their app or otherwise.
I might go one step further and use Nuke Reddit History (overwrites and deletes all of your comments). Link Some of my past comments are contributions to well worth reading threads.....
Depends what you mean. My active presence on Reddit will die. It was already dying, and now that I’ll lose my main account on my favorite app I have no reason to remain active there. Will I still lurk by browser a couple of subs? Yeah.
Gotta give you credit, you are going down swinging. 💀
Use the bot fast before it disappears also. All API apps are dooooommmmed!
Have you seen the sizes of their subs? r/wallstreetbets alone has 14M. Do you really think a few thousand users getting hurt over an app would make any dent? People are going to forget soon as another flash news come along. People believing otherwise are just delusional.
