Pretty much title!
I’d love to support the developer, but I don’t feel like dropping $100 right now.
It’s a cash grab. The ad revenue supports the developer. The $20/year is just a better bulk deal for the devs because they arent subject to the whims of people buying ads. The only interesting bit for me is if the $100 app lasts 5 years in its current form or if they’ll try to charge more for features down the line.
$20 to get rid of ads forever on an app that you use daily is a fair price. No one gets lynched for subscribing to YouTube premium for $14/mo just to get rid of ads
Two very different things.
How so? Also Spotify Premium at $13/mo when there’s a free version supported by ads
How much does Sync pay to host all the content for users to browse? How much does Sync pay content creators for that content? How much does Sync spend on creating content for the platform?
Don’t get me wrong, I think devs should get paid for their work. If you’re happy to pay what’s being asked and see value in it, that’s great. But your comparison isn’t accurate.
Development and hosting are different expenses, but they’re still expenses. I also find it interesting that you call out the “content creators” as being on a certain level, but app creators aren’t?
Not what I said at all. Just pointing out they’re are completely different services.
Different services in the context of one service making sense to pay for and another not
