This guy is more talented than the entire development team working for reddit. They can fire everyone and just hire him for app development and it would result in a better experience.
Not really, the Reddit development team is just shoehorned into making an app that the higher ups want. The current official Reddit app on IOS is a port of alien blue, but is unrecognisable compared to it and alien blue is 109x better. The Reddit app is shaped by a bunch of demands from VC investors that show shit about fuck when it comes to software development.
Reddit development team is just shoehorned into making an app that the higher ups want
You just summarized why 95+% of apps and 90+% of software generally sucks now. You have to do metrics, you have to do tracking, and you have to do ad delivery, because management demands it so they can do stupid little investor earnings calls and talk about how their line went up. Apollo is good because the guy made an app that avoids all of the above, and is just funded by people being grateful to him for providing a way to avoid the official reddit app with its ad-laden, user-tracking crap. And because Apollo doesn't do 500 extra bullshit things in the background it's also a really fast and clean app to use, too.
Except now we've turned a new page in the story. Apollo indirectly benefited from those 0% interest rates just like all of the tech industry did, because Apollo is directly based on Reddit. Since Wall Street wants their line to go up now the same way it did before the money spigot was shut off means every big tech company is doing the same thing at the same time: juicing their assets, worsening the experience for existing users, and squeezing every possible avenue of value. And now Apollo is getting squeezed.
Thanks for the gold, stranger. Every dollar you gave to this shitty company has led to the same result of you not giving them a dollar in the first place: a worse service.
My point is it doesn't matter how talented a Dev team is if it has to bend to corporate demands. The Reddit video player has always been bad. That's more of an infrastructure thing, no amount of efficient code is going to improve video playback if the servers can't handle the sheer load of video data.
Another example is graphic design, a well known livery creator online got hired by a formula one team, in alpine, to design the paint scheme for their cars. People were so excited about it. His fanservice designs were awesome. But as soon as he went to an F1 team, his work turned back to the same bland corporate paint schemes and liveries everyone hates.
that's such a good point, it almost makes me wonder if reddit's end game is to simply buy the better apps after API starving them. sure, maybe the apollo guy wouldn't be interested, but there are a shit ton of better reddit apps.
This guy is more talented than the entire development team working for reddit. They can fire everyone and just hire him for app development and it would result in a better experience.
Not really, the Reddit development team is just shoehorned into making an app that the higher ups want. The current official Reddit app on IOS is a port of alien blue, but is unrecognisable compared to it and alien blue is 109x better. The Reddit app is shaped by a bunch of demands from VC investors that show shit about fuck when it comes to software development.
You just summarized why 95+% of apps and 90+% of software generally sucks now. You have to do metrics, you have to do tracking, and you have to do ad delivery, because management demands it so they can do stupid little investor earnings calls and talk about how their line went up. Apollo is good because the guy made an app that avoids all of the above, and is just funded by people being grateful to him for providing a way to avoid the official reddit app with its ad-laden, user-tracking crap. And because Apollo doesn't do 500 extra bullshit things in the background it's also a really fast and clean app to use, too.
Except now we've turned a new page in the story. Apollo indirectly benefited from those 0% interest rates just like all of the tech industry did, because Apollo is directly based on Reddit. Since Wall Street wants their line to go up now the same way it did before the money spigot was shut off means every big tech company is doing the same thing at the same time: juicing their assets, worsening the experience for existing users, and squeezing every possible avenue of value. And now Apollo is getting squeezed.
Thanks for the gold, stranger. Every dollar you gave to this shitty company has led to the same result of you not giving them a dollar in the first place: a worse service.
Idk about the iOS App but the Android official app is a buggy mess. And the video player is crap.
My point is it doesn't matter how talented a Dev team is if it has to bend to corporate demands. The Reddit video player has always been bad. That's more of an infrastructure thing, no amount of efficient code is going to improve video playback if the servers can't handle the sheer load of video data.
Another example is graphic design, a well known livery creator online got hired by a formula one team, in alpine, to design the paint scheme for their cars. People were so excited about it. His fanservice designs were awesome. But as soon as he went to an F1 team, his work turned back to the same bland corporate paint schemes and liveries everyone hates.
that's such a good point, it almost makes me wonder if reddit's end game is to simply buy the better apps after API starving them. sure, maybe the apollo guy wouldn't be interested, but there are a shit ton of better reddit apps.