I think you’re spot on and it applies in general to why we see a trend of subscriptions. When we all got our first smartphones, most apps were local and it didn’t cost the developer more if they had 1M downloads compared to if they had 50 downloads.
The thing is as always comparing. For that price there are things out there that had much bigger development and costs and offer better stuff, plus he had recouped most of the costs already when it was for reddit, yes there was new development of course but it wasn’t a new app.
Apart from that this is not a service with big recurring expenses, the only exception is the cloud functionality and let’s be honest that also probably is cheap considering the size of the backups.
In any case I believe that the solution is as simple as not using it if people are not interested.
If the dev was fair, he would split the revenues of all the models with the instances to keep them alive. The free API call doesn’t matter if the instances close.
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I think you’re spot on and it applies in general to why we see a trend of subscriptions. When we all got our first smartphones, most apps were local and it didn’t cost the developer more if they had 1M downloads compared to if they had 50 downloads.
The thing is as always comparing. For that price there are things out there that had much bigger development and costs and offer better stuff, plus he had recouped most of the costs already when it was for reddit, yes there was new development of course but it wasn’t a new app. Apart from that this is not a service with big recurring expenses, the only exception is the cloud functionality and let’s be honest that also probably is cheap considering the size of the backups.
In any case I believe that the solution is as simple as not using it if people are not interested.
If the dev was fair, he would split the revenues of all the models with the instances to keep them alive. The free API call doesn’t matter if the instances close.