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by raydev 3y ago
> Usually Apple comes along and builds it so well that people will actually start using it Agreed, but Apple have put themselves in a weird spot with the $3500 USD price tag.
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by raydev 3y ago
> A hot guess Why is this even a guess? The rumors of Reddit's death are greatly exaggerated. I'm shocked at the number of people here who don't understand that Reddit has thousands of SWEs and PMs and Directors now, and t
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by raydev 3y ago
It's not even a popular comment? I think this is just normal spambot behavior, picking up a random phrase that's in a hot topic and running with it for a bit.
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by raydev 3y ago
> The API access charges about 10x the price compared to the revenue per user they would expect if the users accessed reddit via web or official app. This is just the third party developers' made up estimate and is not confirmed at
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by raydev 3y ago
> understand user pain points with the UX. why were people using third party apps? Would actually act on this info if you found out that people using third party apps were a single digit percentage of total users and decreasing over time
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by raydev 3y ago
1. It's a reddit post, not an article 2. It's the OP's assertions and estimations as an outsider, it's not based on any insights.
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by raydev 3y ago
This also seems like the most reasonable solution to me, the guy who is generally supportive of Reddit trying to make money. But having worked on platforms like this, this solution opens up yet another support vector. A cost that works for
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by raydev 3y ago
> Social media sites depend on their users, and arguably only a small portion of their users create content What evidence do you have that a majority of these users are not already using the first party app?
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by raydev 3y ago
A big claim like this requires a source and not handwavy estimates from the person who is impacted by this change (and upset for good reason!). Otherwise I will ignore this claim because we simply don't know what ad revenue per user is
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by raydev 3y ago
> This is why the developer himself can't just raise his own prices by any arbitrary amount. Buyers have some say in the price. Indeed, but this is the risk in selling a middleware product. The Apollo developer doesn't own the
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by raydev 3y ago
If the user is already paying reddit directly, it's even less likely they are using a third party client. All the benefits are in the first party app. And then Reddit would have to audit third party apps to ensure paying users are gett
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by raydev 3y ago
Ad revenue cratered for ElonTwitter months before Elon banned third party clients. Unrelated events.
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by raydev 3y ago
How does the Apollo maintainer get to decide what's a reasonable price? It certainly can't be through hand-wavy and supposedly "generous" estimations of how much money Reddit makes. Only Reddit knows how much money it lo
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by raydev 3y ago
> Why should the app developer pay anything at all? Because Reddit makes money off the ads. They can't guarantee third parties will always show the ads in the way they've designed. So now they are charging third parties the cos
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by raydev 3y ago
> If they want more ads, they can change the APIs to inject them. Reddit wants freedom to arbitrarily change the design of their app and placement of ads, etc. Ads are a huge (primary?) source of revenue for them. If they are tethered to
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by raydev 3y ago
What's funny is that Reddit's pricing is indeed more reasonable than Twitter's, but it's still too high to be make cheap third party clients feasible.
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by raydev 3y ago
A lot of people in this thread are making fuzzy claims. We can only evaluate if there are clear examples and test results. Is anyone taking screenshots or sharing their chat logs, where they run the same questions over some time period?
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by raydev 3y ago
> most non uber wealthy people are putting a hold on car purchases right now until EV prices go down I've been wondering how many others are frustrated like I am. I've hit the 10 year mark on my current ICE vehicle, and I sorta
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by raydev 3y ago
> If one person on your floor knew how to pirate, the entire floor knew how to pirate by the end of the first semester This is not how it worked. Some percentage, say 20-30% knew how to pirate, and everyone else on the shared network pro
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by raydev 3y ago
Not as long as iOS users spend more money on average.
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by raydev 3y ago
Seems like both the article and many commenters here are overlooking the fact that most people have cheap mobile data plans. For most people's use cases (read: not readers here) that's enough. Most people living in cities and even
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by raydev 3y ago
Sure, but we're talking about "persistence" and dedication on the scale of "I built a complex piece of software"
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by raydev 3y ago
To be fair, this is a relatively bad time for talent. My inbox is alarmingly quiet after years of being annoyed by recruiters.
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by raydev 3y ago
Adam Neely does a better job, and includes multiple examples of other songs that Gaye could have "ripped off" by some definition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzLD-SAwW8 This is a bit frustrating because Nee
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by raydev 3y ago
Why would you expect that as an outcome now? The old dinosaurs have the market locked down for at least a few more years. Every massive tech company that reigns today was built at least a decade ago.
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by raydev 3y ago
> Then those layoffs further lower salaries Is there evidence of this now? What I see is a small fraction of the open roles I'm used to seeing. Compensation, on the other hand, is the same at these big companies. If not even higher
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by raydev 3y ago
The gear has indeed gotten cheaper, but you need to - record one or more sounds - have extensive knowledge about filters, mixing, mastering Without the latter, even if you're amazing musician/singer and you have decent gear and a
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by raydev 3y ago
At best, "trivial", "just", "simply" are all noise words. They add no context. At worst they are targeted at the wrong audience. The writer doesn't actually know how knowledgeable or experienced the reader
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by raydev 3y ago
There would be no web-based option in 2007, especially on a mobile device, that could guarantee 60fps out of the box like Apple's APIs did.
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by raydev 3y ago
> If the 100m users is accurate Users or accounts? I made an account but I use it approximately once every two weeks for about 30 minutes at a time, as it hasn't been that useful for me (needs more up-to-date info after September 20

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