I wonder if Lemmy's (and thus the Fediverse's) target audience is even willing to spend money on apps. Even the makers of Tweetbot are having a hard time competing with Ivory against the numerous free alternatives.

[–] tattooed_dude@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the target audience you speak of is people leaving the other site and coming here, then I'd say 100% yes. I can only speak for myself, but after seeing what they did to Apollo, I would be more than happy to spend some money to support Christian if he were to make an app for Lemmy. I think a lot of others would to.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There were no really good free Reddit apps for iOS. Apollo hit a niche. A free Lemmy app would at least have to compete with Mlem and the time frame is narrow until the market is flooded (see also: Mastodon’s three months from 0 to 7262952 apps).

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was, Alien Blue. Then Reddit bought it up and disfigured it into the official app.

There were a few others besides Apollo though. BaconReader was solid.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I used BaconReader on Android back in the day. I didn’t know it had an iOS version. I stand corrected.