This doesn’t shock me. NVIDIA really saw the pricing for the resale market for GPUs and said “we can charge this too”
No, you really can’t. Also, a lot more people anecdotally aren’t super aggressive with upgrades anymore. People are getting so much use out of their electronics that there really is no need to upgrade for most people unless something breaks.
I would like to see spez step down as CEO and have a formal apology to the 3rd party devs affected by the API pricing change, especially to Christian over the repeated attempts to slander his reputation and outright lie about him and his app (Apollo). I would like them to make the price more reasonable if they wish to continue charging for the API. I would also want them to make the grace period a lot longer (12+ months) to give 3rd party apps a chance to adjust. I also want them to not pursue going public. From what I saw, devs had no issues paying. But the pricing is just to price out 3rd-party apps from existing.
That being said, I think there is no way in hell any of this happens. It would take a literal miracle for any of these things to happen. And I just have a hard time seeing them doing the right thing.
Just got over here trying to get away from the reddit nonsense. This definitely applies to me lol
Snagged Eastward, D:OS2, FFX/X-2, and DBZ Kakarot so far.