• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Different goals. The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

    I guarantee you a good chunk of that R&D money is for making ads more profitable and other monetization.

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, the point of Apollo was to also make money. But it was to make money by selling you things that made a nice experience nicer. Reddit makes money by selling you stuff that makes a shitty experience slightly less shitty.

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        1 year ago

        I said it before on Reddit and I will say it again here—

        If Reddit has asked me for a premium subscription to use my favourite third-party app, I would have fucking paid.

        Just bad business all around

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          1 year ago

          I don’t know the right price point, but 1 dollar a month probably would have worked for most people. It just wasn’t enough because they probably can make more than 1 by spoon feeding you ads now.

          • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlOP
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            1 year ago

            I’d go as far as 5 dollars a month, which is more than the buck thirty they make off users right now.

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      1 year ago

      The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

      Spot fucking on.

      Ever have a good app? Something you like using but it’s by a corporation but that’s ok, because it’s a good app and does what you want? And then they start adding more features to it, and it slows down, and it’s more annoying and it keeps offering services you don’t want, and it changes and it morphs and it becomes a shit app.

      Hell I’ve watched Whisk become something I liked using to something worthless now it’s Samsung food… Switched to using CopyMeThat which actually also gets me recipes from sites that you can’t just read the recipes from, and that’s ALL it does (well recipe book/shopping cart/meal planning, which is what it’s designed for.)

      I’m just sick of “How do we make more money” instead of just being an app that does what it says. Gaming is going down the same hole, sadly.