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The dev of Apollo at least has stated a lack of interest in doing that. He said he wants to build products, not grow a company.
by leros 3y ago
The dev of Apollo at least has stated a lack of interest in doing that. He said he wants to build products, not grow a company.
- userm0d 3y agoHe said that in regards to rolling his own version of Reddit. The parent comment proposes instead to repurpose the app as a client for similar but different already existing service.
- bonelessfrog 3y agoWouldn't that just eventually come to the same ends as Reddit though? Especially if it becomes popular, the eventual costly server bill would follow
- skinnymuch 3y agoNot everyone is as selfish and ruthless as companies like Reddit, Twitter, etc. Lemmy has some semblance of humanity and ethics.
- jasonm23 3y agoFor now. Any service that supercedes whatever next, will eventually be a protocol, and future generations will consider all the iterations in-between to be, dumb.
- skinnymuch 3y agoSome of the products are based on anti capitalist principles. Regardless of an amoral view of all this, combining capitalist ventures with egalitarian ventures seems wrong to me. To couple two wildly different ways of ethically interacting with the world and treating people not as commodities.
- freediverx 3y agoIt’s possible to run a profitable company that treats its customers well. It’s not possible to do that when you accept VC money or take the company public. Big Apple fan here, but I’m under no delusion that Apple will always make great products or treat their customers well. The moment they struggle to maintain growth, they will resort to the same user-hostile tactics that have enshittified the rest of the internet. That will probably happen under a different CEO, but I think it’s unavoidable in the long term.
- jifarina 3y agoIf he grows a company just to the right size and sells it, then he could build all the products he wants.
- leros 3y agoIt sounds like he has a neopets like game that he's working on next. Not everyone wants to build a company.
- freediverx 3y agoWhich is why he’s so likable. Anyone focused on building companies has drunk the capitalist kool-aid in pursuit of infinite growth and wealth. That toxic mindset is directly at odds with the (long term) interests of the end users.