I just don’t get why platforms are so dumb like this. Dick Costello did the same thing when he restricted twitter clients.

What I think they should do is instead find a way to do a revenue share with Apollo. Find ways that both the apps and the platforms could benefit. Be that donations, subscription revenue, advertising, etc….

Trying to make the clients pay is getting the relationship all wrong. It’s the same thing in some ways to the way meetup decided to charge organizers rather than make tools and ways for organizers to be able to earn money at the same time as the platform, together.