- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.ml
- ich_iel@feddit.de
- technology@beehaw.org
- lemmy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.ml
- ich_iel@feddit.de
- technology@beehaw.org
- lemmy@lemmy.ml
Wasn’t one of the excuses they used for removing 3rd party API usage was the clients were inefficient and resource intensive?
Well, now it’s just their own official client, and yet the server is still down, so…
The fucking thing of it was that they couldn’t just develop a better app. Their multi-million dollar app team with access to the server source for crying out loud couldn’t compete with teams consisting of one guy in his garage. And that was while giving their app away while others were selling them for some serious cash.
That’s the part I found offensive.
Not the part where they bought Alien Blue and made their official app somehow worse?
I was an Alien Blue user since very close to its release, and I would never have become a Reddit user without it. If I’m remembering correctly (it’s been a while and I paid less attention to this kind of thing at the time), they had the exact same problem. Their in house app/website couldn’t compete with an app written by some guy. But AB was about it at the time. I don’t know about the absolute numbers on Android back then, but AB was far and away the most popular app on iOS. So when they bought it out, we all figured “Great! Now it’ll be even better with official support and all that funding.” We all know what happened there. They just killed it and went with internal projects.
Luckily I had also started messing around with one of those nifty little tablets Google made, so I had backup options. I didn’t find anything that equaled AB though. Then I discovered Apollo. I think I actually found it via the announcement on /r/apple, and I never looked back.
But, again, a guy in a garage. I’m guessing a lot of the popular android apps were similar. So now they’re just like “Fuck em.”
And, again, I haven’t looked back.