Apollo can’t afford Reddit’s fees and will be subject to auto-refund for shutting down, so users can help by declining the refund.
Reddit is going crazy because they are calling him a millionaire. I’m sorry, but making a million dollars over the past decade makes him paid less than a regular developer, and 1 million dollars can’t even buy you a crack shack in Canada.
Remember, Canada is the most expensive place to live. We have the most expensive housing and internet/data plans in the entire world.
Think logically. Don’t think like childish Redditors.
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Remember, Canada is the most expensive place to live.
and 1 million dollars can’t even buy you a crack shack in Canada.
Last I heard Winnipeg was part of Canada, and I’m seeing quite a lot of nice, sizable homes under a million dollars.
Oh, you mean specific cities in Canada? That leads us to this then:
No Canadian city made it into this top ten list.
None made it into this top ten list either.
We have the most expensive housing and internet/data plans in the entire world.
OK, let’s look at internet plans.
Oops. Not only does Canada have nowhere near the most expensive Internet access, it’s near the BOTTOM of costs relative to income worldwide!
Millionaire absolutely doesn’t mean what it did 30-40 years ago, too. Billionaire is a bit excessively high and isn’t quite comparable to what millionaire used to be, and while of course most people have way less due to how the economy works, having a net worth of 1 million isn’t a huge hurdle these days. We need a word for 100-millionaire. I’m sure Selig is not a 100-millionaire.
Wait, Redditors are now bandwagoning on this slander too? I just figured it was a bullshit claim that u/spez made that the rest of the Reddit community saw through and weren’t buying.
If there actually is a large number of people actually believing this shit, then my already rock-bottom hope for Reddit has somehow plummeted further.
Every reddit thread about Apollo is filled with hate against Apollo and christian.
The message that’s being repeated is that he’s made millions of the poor backs of reddit and should be ashamed for taking advantage of the free api. Him asking to decline the refund is a scam/fraud to squeeze the last money he can from his poor users.
I would not be surprised to find out that the posts comes from bot farms or spez himself.
Dude, it’s the internet. People are dumb by default around here. (Me very well included.)
On the bright side, having Apollo on his resume should make landing a good dev job (assuming he didn’t have one already) pretty easy.
He still shouldn’t be on the hook for $250k though.
They will still ask him to invert a binary tree, just to be sure he can code
Here’s the other thing - he’s maybe a millionaire, not a billionaire. That’s middle class, maybe upper middle class if he’s got other income
This is a normal person who just lost his job with little notice because of a greedy company, and, to add insult to injury, now has to come up with money for refunds out of the blue
I know I wouldn’t feel good taking back that money, whether he can afford it or not
Strange understanding of middle class right there, that includes the top 5% of US American population.
He’s not wrong. The owning class, the billionaires, are so ridiculously farther ahead that it makes millionaires middle class.
And this is why we need to tax them out of existence.
“Make Millionaires ‘Rich’ Again”
Millionaires are only middle class now? What?
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. That’s how far income inequality has come. So yes, millionaires are middle class. I know so many people that think they are well off but are stupidly poor when compared to the top 1%
That may be as it is, but that does not make the richest 5% of any population middle class.
It absolutely does when 90% of the wealth is grouped in the top one or two percent.
The difference between a millionaire and a homeless person is tiny compared to the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire.
I suggest you tell the next homeless person that he’s practically a millionaire, when compared to Elon Musk, and see his face light up. He’ll thank you for the really useful reference point that practically gets him off the street.
This is hearbreaking news - and I’m a little shocked to realise that the creators of Apollo can’t simply walk away from the app which got scuttled (or, more likely, actively sabotaged by deliberately extreme Reddit attack).
They should be able to take this to court to redirect the affected people to claim their refund from Reddit.
Reddit doesn’t owe them a refund… Apollo Inc. should owe them a refund and the developer simply walks away, because he’s not personally responsible for Apollo Inc’s debts.
Except he’s a nice person and not a piece of shit
It doesn’t say how to decline it in that article, will it just pop up after the shutdown date?
You should be prompted when opening after updating to the latest version.
I just updated but there was no prompt for this, only the wallpaper prompt
Update: I checked the Apollo sub and apparently many lifetime plan users don’t have the option to decline the refund. That’s a shame… Hope they fix it soon or I’ll just leave a tip tomorrow
