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Christian squeezing Apollo for its last bit of money

old.reddit.com Hey all! Wanted to do something fun for Black Friday, so for a very short time, a special Apollo Plushie is now available. Plus a big sale on ALL merch, Pixel Pals discounts (and lifetime unlocks!), and wallpaper discounts! 🎺

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Hey all! Wanted to do something fun for Black Friday, so for a very short time, a special Apollo Plushie is now available. Plus a big sale on ALL merch, Pixel Pals discounts (and lifetime unlocks!), and wallpaper discounts! 🎺

Christian has decided to squeeze Apollo again for more money, besides the wallpapers and asking people to decline their prorated refund. Christian additionally forced a pop up ad advertising this plushie.

This is just exposing to more people the greediness that Christian has tapped into recently. Recall that previously, Christian forced daily pop up ads to paid pro users to get them to subscribe to ultra, which was originally stated to only be for notifications since it required a server, but now had all new features attached to it, even very simple local features. Reddit did him dirty, but to be honest, he may have had it coming. He previously disabled ultra access to Jailbroken devices as well, even if they were valid paid users. Christian also didn’t provide refunds to lifetime users who bought it before all the API stuff. Speaking of that, does anyone remember how instead of stating the price was increasing (which happened all the time) he instead said it was “going on sale at the old price”? Kinda misleading.

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I can’t get behind this narrative. Honestly, how else do you market this product? On Twitter? On Facebook? Mastodon maybe?

Look, he’s updating an app that hasn’t been operational in months… nobody who still has that app has any illusions of it coming back. What do they expect when they open that app?

I won’t buy a plushie, since I don’t have a place for it, but I had many fond years using Apollo, and wouldn’t mind buying something like this at all, and I would have never known otherwise (except for people complaining about it online.)
- This is where I am. I don’t get the narrative of Darth Christian abusing the populace. He’s an independent gig worker marketing his skills and products.
  
  He’s a millionaire who made those millions from using Reddits free API. Now he’s just grifting.
- The “product” is an attempt to get people who feel sad to give him more money. What other app tries sells plushies of its logo?
  
  Many sell merch. For example, I play an idle game called Melvor Idle that routinely sells plushies of in game pets.
  
  And you’re saying that that’s unethical because…?
  
  I mean think about it. Why does any company sell merch? Is it unethical for them to sell it? Why or why not?
- I would also like to add on that this pop up was shown to all sideloaded Apollo users as well.
  
  Ah… so unofficial installations of an old app got a notification that was only intended for people who had a non-functional version of the app, because that’s what the official update was set as? The audacity!
  
  In all seriousness, that’s like saying someone with a pirated copy of a game having a bug and complaining about it to the one who runs the server is justified. Actually, not even a bug, just a regular notification… that only notifies you after you open the app…..
  
  You see how thin this argument is, surely?
Spez sucks.
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Reddit did him dirty

Did they? He literally made millions of dollars from Reddits product and Reddit didn’t see a cent from him.
- Reddit makes millions of dollars from other people's content without them seeing a cent of it
  
  Yes, Reddit is all just user content, so I do not feel too bad for them, however it is true that Reddit’s free service in the form of their API made Christian potentially millions. However I do feel like there was a better compromise rather than what ended up happening.
  
  And then gets mad when OpenAI uses that data. Like bro it wasn't your data in the first place.
  
  Their product is a content sharing community website. That's what it's made to do.
  
  Christians product was literally just taking reddit and putting it in an app. There's a pretty big difference.

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