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Interesting theory on the motivation for shutting out third party reddit apps. (calckey.world)

submitted 1 year ago by OldGitPhil@feddit.uk to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, I don't think that most third party app developers would have really been against this. Give them enough time (say a year) and they'd probably get on board and do this, such as showing ads and sending back to Reddit whatever "signals" Reddit requires to use the API for free.

I think this is definitely part of the story but if this was the only problem, then I think negotations would have gone differently. There's probably more to it than just this, though this is undoubtedly a big part of it.

I heard elsewhere that the app store doesn't allow you to renegotiate an app contract that you have on an annual basis mid-contract, which is why Apollo suffers from such huge loses. But Relay, an Android app, is going to try to work with the new pricing. I wonder if it's only the Apple App Store that has this requirement then and if only iPhone apps are affected?

[–] deaconblue@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That could be. The people at Apple probably can't imagine anyone wanting to use a product not made by them.