It's at that point in the process when I close out of the app and delete it.
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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That’s what I did.
I get it, people gotta make a living. But that is seriously scummy design 😒
bean is planning to charge $50 for lifetime lol
I understand people charging for their apps.
This feels like something else. Like, it feels like a way to rip off people that don’t pay attention to what they’re signing up for.
Right, $10 sure go for it, $15 maybe if its something spectacular. But $20? $50? lmao
Sure that's high, but I don't think that's quite what makes this truly asshole design though. It's that the trial is on a weekly subscription of $4.99 when a year is only $9.99. $4.99/week for a year is $259.48 which happens to be 2,597% more expensive than the annual subscription. They are hoping people select the trial and forget about it while they rake in an astronomical amount for a third party app for an open source social network.
I can recommend Ivory, it's from the same developers that made Tweetbot.
Subscription price is $1.99 per month or $17.99 per year, which I think is somewhat justified. Yes, one-time payments are usually my preference, but as a developer I understand that keeping an app for a social network up-to-date is a huge task that never really stops.
Fucking gross behaviour that. I hope the app crashes and burns for that predatory shite.
From reading the comments here why are there so many ios mastodon apps with subscriptions
Mastodon is FOSS ffs
Mastodon is, iOS on the other hand… >!free in terms of price, but it is on an Apple device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯!<
Also that may be a prejudice with regard to "if you have enough to buy Apple, you have enough to pay for everything"