Hey all,
I just released the update, similar to what Tweetbot and Twitterrific went through earlier in the year, where you can opt out of your automatic pro-rated refund if you have remaining time-left. These refund costs are out-of-pocket for developers, and totalling it up looks to be about $250K in refund costs, so if you consider opting out of your refund, I greatly appreciate your kindness there.
Also, as discussed, I've worked with a bunch of designers to make a "Goodbye Apollo" Wallpaper Set, so you'll be able to remember Apollo years after it's gone. A bunch of amazing designers contributed to this, and it came out so amazing. The proceeds go toward the refund costs. It includes phone, tablet, and desktop wallpapers, and if you're not on iOS you can also buy it here: https://christianselig.gumroad.com/l/goodbye-wallpapers
If you're having any issues whatsoever with page to decline a refund, or the wallpapers, please let me know!
I've also taken the chance to unlock pretty much everything that was previously paid in the app, and added over a dozen new icons that I had queued up to add over the next year or so. Theming is also free now too. Enjoy everyone!
(And yes, you can continue to use Apollo for a few more days. If this is the first you're hearing about Apollo shutting down on June 30th, here is a post with a bunch of info.)
- Christian
Sounds like they offered a deal to Rick that wasn't available to everyone. He's a talented guy, I genuinely wish him the best.
For me, I think Reddit's attitude toward developers has been really shameful and shown that they have no actual interest in keeping third-party apps around, and even to the extent that they've permitted them, the pricing is so high that it's clearly meant to be punitive toward developers and I don't see that as a sustainable platform to build an app on.
The goal was kind of a Hotel California situation, trap you in Apollo so when June 30th comes, you're stuck with all of us and can't leave
It should dismiss automatically, at least that was the intent haha, but now I'm thinking I should add a manual escape hatch. Xcode come back here!
I can do a blog post something. I basically reimplemented that aspect of the navigation controllers and keep popped view controllers around in memory until the user pops something else on top of the ones that were kept around, that way you can always return. The tricky part was recreating all the animations and interactions to make it feel like it was still the iOS interaction.
Try relaunching, I enabled them server-side.
Do you have a screenshot? Are you on a monthly or yearly subscription? I'm slowly uploading all the wallpapers the designers sent me, if you go to the Settings tab you can open the wallpaper pack again and browse new ones I've added. But yes, will fix that exiting issue too, whoops.
It's a pretty small penalty, when view controllers move off screen they're removed from the window until they're resummoned and pretty efficient as a result.
Having talked to a lot of UIKit folks at WWDC and on Twitter over the years, as I'm sure you can attest they're very smart folks (much, much smarter than me), if they want to integrate it they totally could, it's nothing that complex. But they know where to find me if they want to talk haha.
Fixed! Sorry about that, seems something got botched during the upload process so I had to give the toaster a little kick.
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Last few days! It's been an honor, y'all, hard to believe I was 20 when I started this app and I turn 30 next month, haha