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[–] lhx@lemmy.world 169 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not that you're charging for API access; it's that you're charging US pharmaceutical industry pricing levels ($12,000 for something that should realistically be $200) and then only giving devs such a short time to implement changes. This was designed to kill 3PApps outright and everyone can see it. What an ass.

[–] Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

That part. No one is saying don’t charge but literally no one can afford to fork over that kind of money. Christian crunched the number to run Apollo for a year and it came out to approximately $20M. Twenty million freaking dollars. How is this reasonable?

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so tired of unchecked greed. It ruins everything. US Pharma is a great comparison.

[–] Balthazar@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Main reason why I'm gonna try and stick it out with Lemmy.

Hard to corporate greed a decentralised system :D

[–] charles@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Pissing on 3PAs and saying "it's raining only on reddit"

[–] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This! I'm happy to pay more for my Apollo Ultra Subscribtion, but their prices aren't based in reality, they have the only purpose of driving 3rd Party Apps out of business. And then they also wanna limit NSFW content to the official App and nothing else, that's affecting a lot of Subs I'm in (a ton more if I count my throwaway porn account) It's just ridiculous.