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The developer of Apollo was clear that the problem wasn’t that Reddit wanted to charge for API usage, it was the price. Reddit could have just made third party
by musictubes 3y ago
The developer of Apollo was clear that the problem wasn’t that Reddit wanted to charge for API usage, it was the price.
Reddit could have just made third party client use a feature of Reddit premium and avoid all of the current issues. Yes, some would still complain that Reddit costs anything to use but big clients have paying customers and are less price sensitive.
- jccooper 3y ago...and the timeline. Apollo could've maybe adjusted with a 12-18mo warning/phase-in. The 30-day no-compromise plan that happened instead makes it impossible to do anything but shut down.
- aSockPuppeteer 3y agoIt’s probably more than ten things and the price is number 1. $20mil/yr or something for Apollo? Time: only a few weeks notice. They have to notify users of a change, make a plan, program it, apple approval for updates, and Apollo is just one guy with a part time designer. Terrible communications. Say pricing would be fair and not like twitter. Say no api changes this year. Pretend to be fair. Deception . They could have given Apollo and the many other apps that are shutting down a little more notice and time to adjust. I think Reddit has its back against a wall and a VC gave an ultimatum/margin call that Reddit needs to make more money with a business plan in 30 days or no more funding re-up.