Christian has been extremely responsive on the /r/ApolloApp subreddit, has a very level head, and is generally a nice person. The fact that the idiot, Spez, has tried, and failed, to throw Christian under the bus with lies clearly shows how much of a piece of crap Spez is. I hope Spez not only gets fired, but never gets hired again anywhere because of this. He could have simply decided to change the terms to be sensible. He also could have changed the model to be user-driven API paid access instead of app-driven, which would have taken the apps out of the equation altogether (aside from requiring user login, or having a minimal API access for non-authenticated/non-API-paid users). It wouldn't have solved the LLM issues, but the LLM issues can be solved in other ways.
It is so sad to watch something I once loved go down the shitter.
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