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No way these apps actually shut down An app like Apollo - which is so important Apple is featuring front and center at their biggest announcement of the decade

by shmatt 3y ago

No way these apps actually shut down An app like Apollo - which is so important Apple is featuring front and center at their biggest announcement of the decade, won't attempt to add some caching, poll less for push notifications, and/or charge $5/month, before shutting things down for good? All of these app developers are fear mongering, and hiding their true plans, im 100% sure of this At the minimum they could sell to someone else for many millions of dollars, and they'll do the things I described

alpaca128 3y ago
> An app like Apollo - which is so important Apple is featuring front and center Being featured by Apple doesn't pay the bills and Reddit obviously doesn't listen. > won't attempt to add some caching, poll less for push notifications The Apollo developer has repeatedly asked Reddit to offer a more efficient method of getting notifications that doesn't require polling. The app backend already uses caching and only a small fraction of the allowed request budget. Reddit doesn't care. > and/or charge $5/month $5/month are not enough, in case you didn't notice Reddit's new pricing is insane. Also according to the developer about 10% of users pay the monthly premium subscription. Make it mandatory and most users will be gone. > At the minimum they could sell to someone else for many millions of dollars, and they'll do the things I described Even if the things you described weren't already long implemented, they don't change the prices which are simply too high for third-party apps to survive.
skinnymuch 3y ago
That’s not how supply and demand work. Taxi medallions tanked in value. Similarly now that the value of any Reddit API based product has tanked…they won’t be worth the same. Not that many of the apps were ever going to be sold for many millions of dollars.

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No way these apps actually shut down An app like Apollo - which is so important Apple is featuring front and center at their biggest announcement of the decade

by shmatt 3y ago

alpaca128 3y ago
> An app like Apollo - which is so important Apple is featuring front and center Being featured by Apple doesn't pay the bills and Reddit obviously doesn't listen. > won't attempt to add some caching, poll less for push notifications The Apollo developer has repeatedly asked Reddit to offer a more efficient method of getting notifications that doesn't require polling. The app backend already uses caching and only a small fraction of the allowed request budget. Reddit doesn't care. > and/or charge $5/month $5/month are not enough, in case you didn't notice Reddit's new pricing is insane. Also according to the developer about 10% of users pay the monthly premium subscription. Make it mandatory and most users will be gone. > At the minimum they could sell to someone else for many millions of dollars, and they'll do the things I described Even if the things you described weren't already long implemented, they don't change the prices which are simply too high for third-party apps to survive.
skinnymuch 3y ago
That’s not how supply and demand work. Taxi medallions tanked in value. Similarly now that the value of any Reddit API based product has tanked…they won’t be worth the same. Not that many of the apps were ever going to be sold for many millions of dollars.