[late25]

I have to suspect they thought whoever was gullible enough to pay $3-6 a month for an alarm app would surely not care about their data going along with it.

[skinkestek]

Some of us think that if app developers who deliver good apps earn money from it, it will incentivize them to continue creating good apps.

But sometimes I feel myself slipping closer and closer to your much more cynical ideas.

In particular I remember donating what for me was a good chunk of money to Caddy right before they started "experimenting with business models" or whatever he called it. Same goes for happily paying WhatsApp, walking around like a living talking billboard for it only to have them sell out to Facebook shortly after.

Just two examples from the top of my mind.

[pixl97]

"Greed is good" --Says the monkey with his hand trapped in a jar.

History has taught us that an enforced rule of law is the only way to prevent scammers from being the dominate players (by number, not size) in a market.

[plagiarist]

The entire demographic in the data is willing to pay $3-6 a month for an alarm app. I'd sell the data too, they're probably hitting printer ink levels of valuation for it.

[Workaccount2]

I never thought about how valuable the list of idiots willing to sub for basic functionality apps would be.

[paint]

There is an alarm clock on iOS that used to be a 4 USD or something pay once that is now a monthly fee that I still use every day. It records your sleep sounds and wakes you up at a time when you're not in a deep sleep (you set a n minute wakeup window.)

They added ChatGPT and all sorts of other shit to it unfortunately but the core functionality is still good

[throwaway290]

I think now built in iOS sleep schedule with soft wake-up is nearly competitive with sleep cycle and similar apps.