📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is. - r/apolloapp
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…to keep running as is.

creator of Apollo, a popular Reddit client for iOS, relays his talks with Reddit about upcoming ridiculous API pricing.

  •  Lvxferre   ( @lvxferre@beehaw.org ) 
    5•11 months ago

    Oh look yet another new user! I’m also surprised on how fast I was accepted today.

    On-topic: the sad part is that it’s a sensible move for their goals (profit maximisation). It’s simply cheaper to get rid of better competitors than make your own software better.

    •  Gork   ( @Gork@beehaw.org ) 
      2•11 months ago

      Can’t maximize profits if enough people jump ship. I dunno if that’ll happen though, if this ends up being a Digg moment for the larger Reddit community.

      •  Lvxferre   ( @lvxferre@beehaw.org ) 
        2•11 months ago

        I hope that this becomes a Digg moment, but I don’t think that it will - odds are that they already predicted that some users will leave, and the amount of users leaving will be still small enough to make the move profitable.