"the Apollo guy" mentioned that they were willing to pay for their API usage and were in multiple discussions on pricing over a period of months with teams at Reddit.
Imagine if you were willing to pay for API usage and asked a company what the costs would be, and they gave a number that was infeasible for you to the extent that it wasn't even considerable, such as $1 million per user. Obviously you wouldn't be able to pay that amount if you were making far less money per user of your app, and would feel as the Apollo creator does.
If you can agree to that, then it seems like you just disagree on what a reasonable cost for this service is, which is fine, but I wouldn't call it entitlement.
I agree that Reddit ain't a charity. And I agree that HN isn't either. But I'd also add that Apollo isn't.
I don't think he does? To be honest if someone continued to spread lies about me even after I had released recordings disproving them I would be more than a little upset.
His company isn't a charity either though. If his strategy is to cause massive PR damage to reddit, he's allowed to do that, and its currently working.
He doesn't. He made it clear that he understood why Reddit would charge for their API, and that it seemed reasonable to him. He is shutting down his app because of the amount they are charging, which is outrageous. Additionally, he is shutting down his app because they have given him only 30 days to prepare for the new pricing.
