Apollo will close down on June 30th

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by AmericanChopper on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:17PM (#36250670)

All of these 3rd social media clients really are “freeloaders” though, I don’t get what’s so controversial about shutting them down. If I made my own Netflix client that bypasses their revenue stream, and implemented my own revenue stream on top of it, would anybody be upset or surprised if it was shut down?

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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by kaba0 on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:06AM (#36253905)

Shitty analogy — does your users produce the movies as well?

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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by AmericanChopper on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:03AM (#36254324)

The users don’t belong to Apollo. Reddit provides a service to Reddit users, Apollo freeloads on that service, cuts off Reddit’s revenue stream, and replaces it with its own. Why would anybody think that Reddit has some obligation to allow this, or that Apollo has some right to do it?

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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by doctor_eval on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:11AM (#36255239)

Nobody thinks that, not even the Apollo author, which is why the problem is not that Reddit is charging for access to the APIs, but that they are charging far more than the amount they’re losing.

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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by AmericanChopper on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:29AM (#36257538)

What is the profit margin on Reddit API calls, and what industry benchmark do you think it’s exceeding?

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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by doctor_eval on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:05AM (#36278640)

I think reading the article will answer all your questions.

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