• y2cwr2005@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As a software engineer I find it miraculous the amount of people that whine about somebody wanting to get paid for putting weeks, months, and years of their life into a product 100s of thousands of people CHOOSE to use.

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      Have been using the Reddit app daily for years after paying a couple of quid to remove ads whenever I did that. Felt like a steal then and expensive now so, on balance, I’m comfortable having paid the ad randsome. I feel better knowing it all goes to the developer for his personal efforts.

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      And it’s a very high quality app, to boot. I’ve been a mobile software engineer for more than a decade and this level of polish doesn’t just happen by accident

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      Same. I’m very grateful for the FOSS options, they’re like a public option. They create a baseline that paid apps have to surpass, but there’s nothing wrong with devs getting paid for their work and that payment shouldn’t have to be at the whims of donations. I view it as more choice and more choice is good. This is a small dev on an open platform that can’t lock out FOSS options. It’s not a mega corp building a monopoly. Sync is not hurting anyone by being a paid option.

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        It’s not a mega corp building a monopoly. Sync is not hurting anyone by being a paid option.

        Wouldn’t they see this as a dev trying to make some fortune over non-profit service?

        Not sure though if the dev already automatically donates a portion of his sells to lemmy.

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          Wouldn’t they see this as a dev trying to make some fortune over non-profit service?

          On the other hand, I’d like to see how the donations to the non-profit are being utilized. At least with for-profit we know what’s what.

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      The way i look at is if you give me a good app(sync) with good functionality and a nice ui I don’t mind seeing ad’s or throwing some money the devs way.

      My big issue with the reddit app was there was no equivalent exchange going on i had a shitty app with awful ui that was buggy slow showed me adds and tracked my data I didn’t get anything from that so I had to stop.

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      Paying is fine, it’s the SHIT TON OF THIRD PARTY TRACKERS they put in the app that worry me