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.
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.