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.
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
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%
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
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!
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
