• Overland@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I understand people charging for their apps.

      This feels like something else. Like, it feels like a way to rip off people that don’t pay attention to what they’re signing up for.

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          Sure that’s high, but I don’t think that’s quite what makes this truly asshole design though. It’s that the trial is on a weekly subscription of $4.99 when a year is only $9.99. $4.99/week for a year is $259.48 which happens to be 2,597% more expensive than the annual subscription. They are hoping people select the trial and forget about it while they rake in an astronomical amount for a third party app for an open source social network.

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    I can recommend Ivory, it’s from the same developers that made Tweetbot.

    Subscription price is $1.99 per month or $17.99 per year, which I think is somewhat justified. Yes, one-time payments are usually my preference, but as a developer I understand that keeping an app for a social network up-to-date is a huge task that never really stops.

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    Fucking gross behaviour that. I hope the app crashes and burns for that predatory shite.

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    1 year ago

    From reading the comments here why are there so many ios mastodon apps with subscriptions

    Mastodon is FOSS ffs

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      11 months ago

      Mastodon is, iOS on the other hand… >!free in terms of price, but it is on an Apple device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯!<

      Also that may be a prejudice with regard to “if you have enough to buy Apple, you have enough to pay for everything”