I think the bigger issue is that you can’t afford a $20 one time fee for a highly polished app that will get a massive amount of usage. I know it’s a tough economy but $20 isn’t a crazy amount of money.
Here’s the thing. I don’t know if it will get a massive amount of usage. Lemmy is fine right now but not having the userbase that reddit has is brutal. I want to talk sports with people but all the sports communities are dead. If I look at an Orioles community the game threads have 12 comments all by bots giving pitching/scoring updates.
Give it time. What’s important is that lemmy has hit critical mass and has many great clients that are far better than the Reddit ones. It will grow and not shrink. It’s the long game, doesn’t matter that it’s not big enough to support sports communities yet, it will get there and it’s still very early days on this platform.
The most I’ve ever paid for an app is $15 for a highly-featured launcher that is now literally the core element of my phone use. This pricing just does not make sense when compared to the rest of the Android ecosystem.
Additionally, I don’t know if I would call it “highly polished.” I’d say it looks fine and browsing feels, well, like browsing, but I used it for a couple days and comments seemed to be totally bugged. They were appearing out of order, disappearing seemingly randomly and I think some where even attaching to the wrong parents, because there were things I was reading that just didn’t make any sense.
It’s so weird how it DOES seem expensive for an app feature. But like you said in the grand scheme it’s actually incredibly cheap. It’s a meal at McDs!
A lot of apps charge money for barely anything at all, but in sync’s case, think how much you use the app. I expect to get a ton of value out of lemmy clients.
I reckon since he mentioned the lack of regional pricing, he’s probably from a developing country where 20 USD is a crazy amount of money for a Lemmy app.
I think the bigger issue is that you can’t afford a $20 one time fee for a highly polished app that will get a massive amount of usage. I know it’s a tough economy but $20 isn’t a crazy amount of money.
Here’s the thing. I don’t know if it will get a massive amount of usage. Lemmy is fine right now but not having the userbase that reddit has is brutal. I want to talk sports with people but all the sports communities are dead. If I look at an Orioles community the game threads have 12 comments all by bots giving pitching/scoring updates.
Give it time. What’s important is that lemmy has hit critical mass and has many great clients that are far better than the Reddit ones. It will grow and not shrink. It’s the long game, doesn’t matter that it’s not big enough to support sports communities yet, it will get there and it’s still very early days on this platform.
The most I’ve ever paid for an app is $15 for a highly-featured launcher that is now literally the core element of my phone use. This pricing just does not make sense when compared to the rest of the Android ecosystem.
Additionally, I don’t know if I would call it “highly polished.” I’d say it looks fine and browsing feels, well, like browsing, but I used it for a couple days and comments seemed to be totally bugged. They were appearing out of order, disappearing seemingly randomly and I think some where even attaching to the wrong parents, because there were things I was reading that just didn’t make any sense.
It’s so weird how it DOES seem expensive for an app feature. But like you said in the grand scheme it’s actually incredibly cheap. It’s a meal at McDs!
A lot of apps charge money for barely anything at all, but in sync’s case, think how much you use the app. I expect to get a ton of value out of lemmy clients.
I reckon since he mentioned the lack of regional pricing, he’s probably from a developing country where 20 USD is a crazy amount of money for a Lemmy app.
“highly polished”