I had a feeling they'll put something like this, so I went in every now and then to see how infinity will react. I really loved the app, devs did an amazing job
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A number of devs talked about the pricing and the consensus seems to be that the fee applied to keep the apps afloat would need to be pretty high and they don't see how it can be sustainable.
I wonder how much Infinity is planning on asking and I doubt its user base will be so keen on paying that much.
Yeah like $5 a month for more casual users. And people paying for apps tend to use them more. I think Apollo's calculations were like $10-12/mo for higher end users? Anything over $5/mo is probably a no-go so I wonder if it'll be viable.
And if Infinity's userbase makes $5/mo viable, I wonder if they'll get flocks of users from other apps and if that'll make it non-viable with high-traffic users.
Or maybe they'll go with a post-paid plan where you pay by usage? That seems iffy.
Keep in mind too, that even with the paid API usage to the best of my knowledge the 3PA still will not have NSFW/porn content in the feed. How many people are going to be willing to spend $5-10/mo while also having reduced content?
I certainly won't that's for sure. I'm a current infinity user.
Which is nuts. I was Apollo Ultra, and that was $10/year.
I honestly never looked into Reddit premium until all the API drama and was shocked it is $50/year, while only offering a fraction of what Apollo offered. Crazy pricing.
It would be cool if it gave the option to pay more per month as a donation. That would allow wealthy users to help lower the cost for less wealthy users
It would but you also couldn't predict how many "wealthy" users would do that and I guess many wouldn't continue to do it so at best the base price would fluctuate but I imagine it'd go high fairly quickly.
A yearly subscription would be more stable I guess but that would put some users off the initial purchase and even if they do then they're less likely to spend more because they're seeing the lump sum
The other weird part is, I'm sure a lot of Lemmy users would be more than happy to donate much more to a good cause than an average Google Store app user who can ask for refund at any time and then leave 1 star.