2y ago

YSK that Apollo is subject to auto-refund and you can decline this refund before the weekend.

appleinsider.com Apollo users, decline your subscription refund while you can

Reddit has forced third-party clients like Apollo to shut down due to exorbitant fees, and please refuse the subscription refund to help keep your favorite developers afloat.

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.

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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

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.
- 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
- [re-ordered slightly for coherence: c.f. the original post for the original order]
  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.
  (Source)
  Oops. Not only does Canada have nowhere near the most expensive Internet access, it's near the BOTTOM of costs relative to income worldwide!

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